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Translating America

Peter Conolly-Smith
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Author : Peter Conolly-Smith
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781588345202

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At the turn of the century, New York City's Germans constituted a culturally and politically dynamic community, with a population 600,000 strong. Yet fifty years later, traces of its culture had all but disappeared. What happened? The conventional interpretation has been that, in the face of persecution and repression during World War I, German immigrants quickly gave up their own culture and assimilated into American mainstream life. But in Translating America, Peter Conolly-Smith offers a radically different analysis. He argues that German immigrants became German-Americans not out of fear, but instead through their participation in the emerging forms of pop culture. Drawing from German and English newspapers, editorials, comic strips, silent movies, and popular plays, he reveals that German culture did not disappear overnight, but instead merged with new forms of American popular culture before the outbreak of the war. Vaudeville theaters, D.W. Griffith movies, John Philip Sousa tunes, and even baseball games all contributed to German immigrants' willing transformation into Americans. Translating America tackles one of the thorniest questions in American history: How do immigrants assimilate into, and transform, American culture?

TRANSLATING AMER

Conolly Smith P
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Author : Conolly Smith P
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : 414 pages
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Release : 2004-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588341674

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Translating America focuses on one of the thorniest questions in American history: how do immigrants assimilate into American culture? And, how does American culture change with the their arrival? yet 50 years later social scientists were hard-pressed to find a trace of German culture. What happened? The conventional interpretation has been that, in the face of persecution and repression during World War I, German immigrants quickly gave up their own culture and assimilated. In Translating America Connolly-Smith offers a significantly different analysis: that German immigrants became German-Americans not out of fear, but instead through their participation in the emerging forms of pop culture. culture did not disappear overnight; rather it merged with new forms of American popular culture. Connolly-Smith posits that the lure and appeal of dance halls, vaudeville, nickelodeons, the films of D.W. Griffith, the music of John Philip Sousa, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin, and even baseball games all helped German Americans to assimilate and become German-Americans.

Translating America

Associazione italiana di studi nord-americani
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Author : Associazione italiana di studi nord-americani
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : American literature
ISBN : 3034303955

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MACHINE GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE: PART 1 TRADING AMERICA: CIRCULATION OF IDENTITIES, GOODS AND CULTURAL PRACTICES: Re-Translating America's Words: A View from Beyond / Mario Corona -- Fun in the Cup: From the Italian Espresso Bar to the Globalized "Starbucks Experience" / Eva-Sabine Zehelein -- Disneyland in Europe: Or, How to Translate "Cultural Chernobyl" into Cultural Shock "Therapy"/ Simona Sangiorgi -- Mainscreening America: Cultural Translation in US TV Series/ Gianna Fusco -- Foreign Route of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, 1949-2009/ Alessandro Clericuzio -- La linea della palma in Brooklyn: Sicily and Sicilian America in Alberto Lattuada's Mafioso/ Francesca De Lucia -- PART 2 RE-WRITING STORIES ACROSS THE MEDIA: Coloniality, Performance, Translation: The Embodied Public Sphere in Early America/ Elizabeth Maddock Dillon -- Left in Translation: Mirror Images of Italy and America in the Italian TV Version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun/ Valerio Massimo De Angelis -- Transformation of Wilderness from the Aesthetic of the Sublime to the Aesthetic of Life: Into the Wild as a Palimpsest of the American Myth of Nature/ Paola Loreto -- Eternal Frame: Photographs, Fiction, and Falling Men in Don DeLillo and Jonathan Safran Foer/ Francesco Pontuale -- In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Art Spiegelman's Representation of Trauma in the Comic-Book Form/ Stefania Porcelli -- Translating Comics into Literature and Vice Versa: Intersections between Comics and Non-Graphic Narratives in the United States/ Paolo Simonetti -- PART 3 LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION BETWEEN THE US AND ITALY: Never-Finished Job: Translating H.D.'s Trilogy into Italian/ Marina Camboni -- Translating with an Accent: The Importance of Sound, Orality and History in the Works of Italian American Women Poets/ Elisabetta Marino -- Between God(fathers) and Good(fellas): To Kill, To Slur, To Eat in Tony Soprano's Words/ Cinzia Scarpino -- PART 4 POLITICAL AND CULTURAL MODELS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC: "Let Trade Be as Free as Air:" The "Liberal" American Revolution and the Early State-Building/ Matteo Battistini -- Conservative Translation of European Classical Liberalism: William Graham Sumner's Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America/ Gabriele Rosso -- Ethnic Press and the Translation of the US Political System for Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1924-1941/ Stefano Luconi -- Against the Stream: American-European Transnational Contacts During the Nazi Years. A Labor Perspective/ Catherine Collomp -- Translating Italian Americanness in Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas/ Fulvio Orsitto. Publisher's note.

Literature in Motion

Ellen Jones
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Author : Ellen Jones
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231554831

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Literature is often assumed to be monolingual: publishing rights are sold on the basis of linguistic territories and translated books are assumed to move from one “original” language to another. Yet a wide range of contemporary literary works mix and meld two or more languages, incorporating translation into their composition. How are these multilingual works translated, and what are the cultural and political implications of doing so? In Literature in Motion, Ellen Jones offers a new framework for understanding literary multilingualism, emphasizing how authors and translators can use its defamiliarizing and disruptive potential to resist conventions of form and dominant narratives about language and gender. Examining the connection between translation and multilingualism in contemporary literature, she considers its significance for the theory, practice, and publishing of literature in translation. Jones argues that translation does not conflict with multilingual writing’s subversive potential. Instead, we can understand multilingualism and translation as closely intertwined creative strategies through which other forms of textual and conceptual hybridity, fluidity, and disruption are explored. Jones addresses both well-known and understudied writers from across the American hemisphere who explore the spaces between languages as well as genders, genres, and textual versions, reading their work alongside their translations. She focuses on U.S. Latinx authors Susana Chávez-Silverman, Junot Díaz, and Giannina Braschi, who write in different forms of “Spanglish,” as well as the Brazilian writer Wilson Bueno, who combines Portuguese and Spanish, or “Portunhol,” with the indigenous language Guarani, and whose writing is rendered into “Frenglish” by Canadian translator Erín Moure.

Translating Childhoods

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
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Author : Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813548632

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Though the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered "invisible." Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, brings children to the forefront by exploring the "work" they perform as language and culture brokers, and the impact of this largely unseen contribution. Skilled in two vernaculars, children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be "in the middle" or the "keys to communication" that adults otherwise would lack. Drawing from ethnographic data and research in three immigrant communities, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators as part of a cost equation in an era of global restructuring and considers how sociocultural learning and development is shaped as a result of children's contributions as translators.

Born in the Blood

Brian Swann
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Author : Brian Swann
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780803267596

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Since Europeans first encountered Native Americans, problems relating to language and text translation have been an issue. Translators needed to create the tools for translation, such as dictionaries, still a difficult undertaking today. Although the fact that many Native languages do not share even the same structures or classes of words as European languages has always made translation difficult, translating cultural values and perceptions into the idiom of another culture renders the process even more difficult. ø In Born in the Blood, noted translator and writer Brian Swann gathers some of the foremost scholars in the field of Native American translation to address the many and varied problems and concerns surrounding the process of translating Native American languages and texts. The essays in this collection address such important questions as, what should be translated? how should it be translated? who should do translation? and even, should the translation of Native literature be done at all? This volume also includes translations of songs and stories.

On Self-Translation

Ilan Stavans
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Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781438471495

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A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language. From award-winning, internationally known scholar and translator Ilan Stavans comes On Self-Translation,a collection of essays and conversations on language in its multifaceted forms. Stavans discusses the way syntax is being restructured by texting and other technologies. He examines how the alphabet itself is being forgotten by the young, how finger snapping has taken on a new meaning, how the use of ellipses has lapsed, and how autocorrect is shaping the way we communicate. In an incisive meditation, he shows how translating one’s own work reinvents oneself in another tongue. The volume includes tête-à-têtes with Pulitzer Prize–winner Richard Wilbur and short-fiction master Lydia Davis, as well as dialogues on silence, multilingualism, poetry, and the durability of the classics. Stavans’s explorations cover Spanish, English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and the hybrid lexicon of Spanglish. He muses on the meaning of foreignness and on living and dying in different languages. Among his primary concerns are the role and history of dictionaries and the extent to which the authority of language academies is less a reality than a delusion. He concludes with renditions into Spanglish of portions of Hamlet, Don Quixote, and The Little Prince. The wide range of themes and engaging yet informed style confirm Stavans’s status, in the words of the Washington Post, as “Latin America’s liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast.” “On Self-Translation is a beautiful and often profound work. Stavans, a superb stylist, offers erudite meditations on translation, and gives us new ways to think about language itself.” — Jack Lynch, author of The Lexicographer’s Dilemma: The Evolution of' “Proper” English, from Shakespeare to South Park “Stavans carries his learning light, and has the gift of communicating the profoundest of insights in the simplest of ways. The book is delightfully free of unnecessary jargon and ponderous discourse, allowing the reader time and space for her own reflections without having to slow down in the reading of it. This is work born out of the deep confidence that complete and dedicated immersion in a chosen field of knowledge (and practice) can bring; it is further infused with original wisdom accrued from self-reflexive, lived experiences of multilinguality.” — Kavita Panjabi, Jadavpur University

Translating Popular Film

C. O'Sullivan
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Author : C. O'Sullivan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230317543

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A ground-breaking study of the roles played by foreign languages in film and television and their relationship to translation. The book covers areas such as subtitling and the homogenising use of English, and asks what are the devices used to represent foreign languages on screen?

Translating Empire

Laura Lomas
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Author : Laura Lomas
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822389415

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In Translating Empire, Laura Lomas uncovers how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of U.S. imperialism, one that prefigures many of the concerns about empire, race, and postcolonial subjectivity animating American studies today. During the 1880s and early 1890s, the Cuban journalist, poet, and revolutionary José Martí and other Latino migrants living in New York City translated North American literary and cultural texts into Spanish. Lomas reads the canonical literature and popular culture of the United States in the Gilded Age through the eyes of Martí and his fellow editors, activists, orators, and poets. In doing so, she reveals how, in the process of translating Anglo-American culture into a Latino-American idiom, the Latino migrant writers invented a modernist aesthetics to criticize U.S. expansionism and expose Anglo stereotypes of Latin Americans. Lomas challenges longstanding conceptions about Martí through readings of neglected texts and reinterpretations of his major essays. Against the customary view that emphasizes his strong identification with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, the author demonstrates that over several years, Martí actually distanced himself from Emerson’s ideas and conveyed alarm at Whitman’s expansionist politics. She questions the association of Martí with pan-Americanism, pointing out that in the 1880s, the Cuban journalist warned against foreign geopolitical influence imposed through ostensibly friendly meetings and the promotion of hemispheric peace and “free” trade. Lomas finds Martí undermining racialized and sexualized representations of America in his interpretations of Buffalo Bill and other rituals of westward expansion, in his self-published translation of Helen Hunt Jackson’s popular romance novel Ramona, and in his comments on writing that stereotyped Latino/a Americans as inherently unfit for self-government. With Translating Empire, Lomas recasts the contemporary practice of American studies in light of Martí’s late-nineteenth-century radical decolonizing project.

Translation and the Spanish Empire in the Americas

Roberto A. Valdeón
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Author : Roberto A. Valdeón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269409

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Two are the starting points of this book. On the one hand, the use of Doña Marina/La Malinche as a symbol of the violation of the Americas by the Spanish conquerors as well as a metaphor of her treason to the Mexican people. On the other, the role of the translations of Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias in the creation and expansion of the Spanish Black Legend. The author aims to go beyond them by considering the role of translators and interpreters during the early colonial period in Spanish America and by looking at the translations of the Spanish chronicles as instrumental in the promotion of other European empires. The book discusses literary, religious and administrative documents and engages in a dialogue with other disciplines that can provide a more nuanced view of the role of translation, and of the mediators, during the controversial encounter/clash between Europeans and Amerindians.

Translating Molière for the English-speaking Stage

Cédric Ploix
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Author : Cédric Ploix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000076578

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This book critically analyzes the body of English language translations Moliere’s work for the stage, demonstrating the importance of rhyme and verse forms, the creative work of the translator, and the changing relationship with source texts in these translations and their reception. The volume questions prevailing notions about Moliere’s legacy on the stage and the prevalence of comedy in his works, pointing to the high volume of English language translations for the stage of his work that have emerged since the 1950s. Adopting a computer-aided method of analysis, Ploix illustrates the role prosody plays in verse translation for the stage more broadly, highlighting the implementation of self-consciously comic rhyme and conspicuous verse forms in translations of Moliere’s work by way of example. The book also addresses the question of the interplay between translation and source text in these works and the influence of the stage in overcoming formal infelicities in verse systems that may arise from the process of translation. In so doing, Ploix considers translations as texts in and of themselves in these works and the translator as a more visible, creative agent in shaping the voice of these texts independent of the source material, paving the way for similar methods of analysis to be applied to other canonical playwrights’ work. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in translation studies, adaptation studies, and theatre studies

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media

Esperança Bielsa
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Author : Esperança Bielsa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000478518

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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media provides the first comprehensive account of the role of translation in the media, which has become a thriving area of research in recent decades. It offers theoretical and methodological perspectives on translation and media in the digital age, as well as analyses of a wide diversity of media contexts and translation forms. Divided into four parts with an editor introduction, the 33 chapters are written by leading international experts and provide a critical survey of each area with suggestions for further reading. The Handbook aims to showcase innovative approaches and developments, bridging the gap between currently separate disciplinary subfields and pointing to potential synergies and broad research topics and issues. With a broad-ranging, critical and interdisciplinary perspective, this Handbook is an indispensable resource for all students and researchers of translation studies, audiovisual translation, journalism studies, film studies and media studies.

Translating Southwestern Landscapes

Audrey Goodman
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Author : Audrey Goodman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816521875

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Examines how the Southwest emerged as a symbolic cultural space for Anglos, from 1880 through the early decades of the twentieth century, particularly in the works of amateur ethnographer Charles Lummis, pulp novelist Zane Grey, translator of Indian songs Mary Austin, and modernist author Willa Cather.

Translating Marx

Martín Cortés
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Author : Martín Cortés
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004410183

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Translating Marx by Martín Cortés Pdf

In Translating Marx, Martín Cortés ponders José Aricó’s contributions towards the constitution of Latin American Marxism. Accordingly, he studies Aricó in terms of his trajectory as a publisher and translator, while considering his thoughts on Marxism’s fundamental theoretical problems.

Translating the Counterculture

Erik Mortenson
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Author : Erik Mortenson
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809336548

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Translating the Counterculture by Erik Mortenson Pdf

Through an examination of a broad range of literary translations, media portrayals, interviews, and other related materials, Translating the Counterculture seeks to uncover how the Beats and their texts are being circulated, discussed, and used in Turkey to rethink the possibilities they might hold for social critique today.