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Translating the Female Self across Cultures

Author : Eliana Maestri
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266064

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Translating the Female Self across Cultures by Eliana Maestri Pdf

Translating the Female Self across Cultures examines contemporary autobiographical narratives and their Italian and French translations. The comparative analyses of the texts are underpinned by the latest developments in Translation Studies that place emphasis on identity construction in translation and the role of translation in moulding various types of identity. They focus on how the writers’ textual personae make sense of their sexual, artistic and post-colonial identities in relation to the mother and how the mother-daughter dyad survives translation into the Italian and French social, political and cultural contexts. The book shows how each target text activates different cultural literary, linguistic and rhetorical frames of reference which cast light on the facets of the protagonists’ quest for identity: the cult of the Madonna; humour and irony; gender and class; mimesis and storytelling; performativity and geographical sense of self. The book highlights the fruitfulness of studying women’s narratives and their translations, and the polyphonic dialogue between the translations and the literary and theoretical productions of the French and Italian cultures.

Gender in Translation

Author : Sherry Simon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134820856

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Gender in Translation by Sherry Simon Pdf

Gender in Translation is a broad-ranging, imaginative and lively look at feminist issues surrounding translation studies. Students and teachers of translation studies, linguistics, gender studies and women's studies will find this unprecedented work invaluable and thought-provoking reading. Sherry Simon argues that translation of feminist texts - with a view to promoting feminist perspectives - is a cultural intervention, seeking to create new cultural meanings and bring about social change. She takes a close look at specific issues which include: the history of feminist theories of language and translation studies; linguistic issues, including a critical examination of the work of Luce Irigaray; a look at women translators through history, from the Renaissance to the twentieth century; feminist translations of the Bible; an analysis of the ways in which French feminist texts such as De Beauvoir's The Second Sex have been translated into English.

Voices of Women Writers

Author : Elena Anna Spagnuolo
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781839987991

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Voices of Women Writers by Elena Anna Spagnuolo Pdf

This book investigates the practice of writing and self - translating phenomenon of self-translation within the context of mobility, through the analysis of a corpus of narratives written by authors who were born in Italy and then moved to English-speaking countries. Emphasizing writing and self-translating As practices, which exists in conjunction with a process of redefinition of identity, the book illustrates how these authors use language to negotiate and voice their identity in (trans)migratory contexts.

Transcultural Italies

Author : Charles Burdett,Loredana Polezzi,Barbara Spadaro
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781789622706

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Transcultural Italies by Charles Burdett,Loredana Polezzi,Barbara Spadaro Pdf

The history of Italian culture stems from multiple experiences of mobility and migration, which have produced a range of narratives, inside and outside Italy. This collection interrogates the dynamic nature of Italian identity and culture, focussing on the concepts and practices of mobility, memory and translation. It adopts a transnational perspective, offering a fresh approach to the study of Italy and of Modern Languages.

Handbook of Research on Translating Myth and Reality in Women Imagery Across Disciplines

Author : Ciol?neanu, Roxana,Marinescu, Roxana-Elisabeta
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799864608

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Handbook of Research on Translating Myth and Reality in Women Imagery Across Disciplines by Ciol?neanu, Roxana,Marinescu, Roxana-Elisabeta Pdf

Women have been represented in art, literature, music, and more for decades, with the image of the woman changing through time and across cultures. However, rarely has a multidisciplinary approach been taken to examine this imagery and challenge and possibly reinterpret old women-related myths and other taken-for-granted aspects (e.g., grammatically inclusive gender). Moreover, this approach can better place the ideologies as myth creators and propagators, identify and deconstruct stereotypes and prejudices, and compare them across cultures with the view to spot universal vs. culturally specific approaches as far as women's studies and interpretations are concerned. It is important to gather these perspectives to translate and unveil new interpretations to old ideas about women and the feminine that are universally accepted as absolute, impossible to challenge, and invalidated truths. The Handbook of Research on Translating Myth and Reality in Women Imagery Across Disciplines is a comprehensive reference book that provides an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective on the perception and reception of women across time and space. It tackles various perspectives: gender studies, linguistic studies, literature and cultural studies, discourse analysis, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, etc. Its main objective is to present new approaches and propose new answers to old questions related to gender inequalities, stereotypes, and prejudices about women and their place in the world. Covering significant themes that include the ethics of embodiment, myth of motherhood at the crossroad of ideologies, translation of women’s experiences and ideas across cultures, and discourses on women’s rehabilitation and dignification across centuries, this book is critical for linguists, professionals, researchers, academicians, and students working in the fields of women’s studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and literature, as well as other related categories such as political studies, education studies, philosophy, and the social sciences.

Cultural Perspectives on Women's Depression

Author : Dana Crowley Jack,Alisha Ali
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 019976638X

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Cultural Perspectives on Women's Depression by Dana Crowley Jack,Alisha Ali Pdf

This international volume offers new perspectives on social and psychological aspects of depression. The twenty-one contributors hailing from thirteen countries use the framework of Silencing the Self theory to examine gender differences in depression, as well as related aspects of mental and physical illness, including treatments specific to women.

Italian as a foreign language: Teaching and acquisition in higher education

Author : Alberto Regagliolo
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781648897863

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Italian as a foreign language: Teaching and acquisition in higher education by Alberto Regagliolo Pdf

This manual focuses on teaching Italian as a foreign language in the academic field, taking into consideration the various subjects and disciplines that can be found in a university course in Italian Studies. Various chapters are included within that range, for example, from Italian phonetics and dialectology to art as a means to deepen elements of the Italian language, to morphology with word formations, and to translation as well as subtitling. The range also covers technology as a tool for telecollaboration, academic writing, and learning Italian through geography or the language of vulgarity. Besides, the manual takes into consideration the use of the Italian press for learning, together with the use of comics and cartoons to teach the Italian language. The contribution aims to be a point of reference both for teachers and students who are focusing on linguistics, philology, didactics, and pedagogy. It lays emphasis on the teaching methodology, the instruments of teaching, and the available resources. It also seeks to deal with the various teaching problems and reflects on the disciplines as well as alternative proposals for teaching.

Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

Author : Eva Hoffman
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman Pdf

The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound." Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language, a classic of exile and immigrant literature, as well as a girl’s coming-of-age memoir. Lost in Translationmoves from Hoffman's childhood in Cracow, Poland to her adolescence in Vancouver, British Columbia to her university years in Texas and Massachusetts to New York City, where she becomes a writer and an editor at the New York Times Book Review. Its multi-layered narrative encompasses many themes: the defining power of language; the costs and benefits of changing cultures, the construction of personal identity, and the profound consequences, for a generation of post-war Jews like Hoffman, of Nazism and Communism. Lost in Translation is, as Publisher's Weekly wrote, "a penetrating, lyrical memoir that casts a wide net," challenges its reader to reconsider their own language, autobiography, cultures, and childhoods. Lost in Translation was first published in the United States in 1989. Hoffman’s subsequent books of literary non-fiction include Exit into History, Shtetl, After Such Knowledge, Time and two novels, The Secret and Appassionata. "Nothing, after all, has been lost; poetry this time has been made in and by translation." — Peter Conrad, The New York Times "Handsomely written and judiciously reflective, it is testimony to the human capacity not merely to adapt but to reinvent: to find new lives for ourselves without forfeiting the dignity and meaning of our old ones." — Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post "As a childhood memoir, Lost in Translation has the colors and nuance of Nabokov'sSpeak, Memory. As an account of a young mind wandering into great books, it recalls Sartre's Words. … As an anthropology of Eastern European émigré life, American academe and the Upper West Side of Manhattan, it's every bit as deep and wicked as anything by Cynthia Ozick. … A brilliant, polyphonic book that is itself an act of faith, a Bach Fugue." — John Leonard, Harper’s Magazine

Translation and Transgression in the Art of Shirin Neshat

Author : Erin C. Devine
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000998719

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Translation and Transgression in the Art of Shirin Neshat by Erin C. Devine Pdf

Precisely 30 years after the debut of her provocative photo-portraits, this book chronicles the early career of Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat. In its first 20 years, Neshat’s work weaved viewers into complex readings of women and power in Iran. Yet her images also drew criticisms of exoticizing Muslim women, and later video installations were accused of lacking political assertion during stormy relations between the West and the Islamic world. Now broadly recognized as a social justice artist, this volume chronicles Neshat’s evolution from photography to film, from personal to political expression, and expands existing scholarship to investigate underserved contexts for her work, including the cinematic turn and emergent theories of globality in contemporary art. Neshat’s hyphenated identity was often attenuated by reductive and exoticizing discourses; therefore, this volume draws attention to her transnational methodologies, informed by strategies of appropriation, performativity, and embodiment while articulating Persian visual and literary traditions. Complicating simplistic ethnographies, her disruption of neo-Orientalist paradigms and representations has led audiences to reconsider Islamophobic, Islamism, and gender repressions that are political, psychological, and above all cross-cultural. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, photography, cinema studies, performance, transnational and global studies, women’s studies, and Iranian studies.

Translation and Gender

Author : Luise von Flotow
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780776617350

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Translation and Gender by Luise von Flotow Pdf

Translation and Gender places recent work in translation against the background of the women's movement and its critique of "patriarchal" language. It explains translation practices derived from experimental feminist writing, the development of openly interventionist translation practices, the initiative to retranslate fundamental texts such as the Bible, translating as a way of recuperating writings "lost" in patriarchy, and translation history as a means of focusing on women translators of the past.

Women Making Art

Author : Marsha Meskimmon
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415242789

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Women Making Art by Marsha Meskimmon Pdf

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Investigating Gender, Translation and Culture in Italian Studies

Author : Monica Boria,Linda Risso
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781905886227

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Investigating Gender, Translation and Culture in Italian Studies by Monica Boria,Linda Risso Pdf

The past few years have witnessed a growing academic interest in Italian Studies and an increasing number of symposia and scholarly activities. This volume originates from the Society for Italian Studies Postgraduate Colloquia that took place at the University of Leicester and Cambridge in June 2004 and April 2005 respectively. It gathers together articles by young researchers working on various aspects of Italian Studies. It well illustrates current trends in both typical areas of research, like literature and 'high culture', and in those which have gained momentum in recent years, like translation and language studies. The volume offers a taste of the dynamic outlook of current research in Italian Studies: the interdisciplinary approach of the essays in translation and gender studies, and the innovative methodological perspectives and findings offered by the new fields of Italian L2 and ethnography. The book is divided into three sections, each grouping contributions by broad subject areas: literature and culture, translation and gender studies, language and linguistics. Cross-fertilizations and interdisciplinary research emerge from several essays and the coherent ensemble constitutes an example of the far-reaching results achieved by current research.

Kohut's Twinship Across Cultures

Author : Koichi Togashi,Amanda Kottler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317578659

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Kohut's Twinship Across Cultures by Koichi Togashi,Amanda Kottler Pdf

Kohut's Twinship Across Cultures: The Psychology of Being Human chronicles a 10-year-voyage in which the authors struggled, initially independently, to make sense of Kohut‘s intentions when he radically re-defined the twinship experience to one of "being human among other human beings". Commencing with an exploration of Kohut’s work on twinship and an illustration of the value of what he left for elaboration, Togashi and Kottler proceed to introduce a new and very different sensitivity to understanding particular psychoanalytic relational processes and ideas about human existential anguish, trauma, and the meaning of life. Together they tackle the twinship concept, which has often been misunderstood and about which little has been written. Uniquely, the book expands and elaborates upon Kohut’s final definition, "being human among other human beings." It problematizes this apparently simple concept with a wide range of clinical material, demonstrating the complexity of the statement and the intricacies involved in recognizing and working with traumatized patients who have never experienced this feeling. It asks how a sense of being human, as opposed to being described as human, can be generated and how this might help clinicians to better understand and work with trauma. Written for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists interested in self-psychological, intersubjective, and relational theories, Twinship Across Cultures will also be invaluable to clinicians working in the broader areas of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, social work, psychiatry and education. It will enrich their sensitivity and capacity to understand and treat traumatized patients and the alienation they feel among other human beings.

Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer

Author : Norbert Bachleitner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110641974

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Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer by Norbert Bachleitner Pdf

The three concepts mentioned in the title of this volume imply the contact between two or more literary phenomena; they are based on similarities that are related to a form of ‘travelling’ and imitation or adaptation of entire texts, genres, forms or contents. Transfer comprises all sorts of ‘travelling’, with translation as a major instrument of transferring literature across linguistic and cultural barriers. Transfer aims at the process of communication, starting with the source product and its cultural context and then highlighting the mediation by certain agents and institutions to end up with inclusion in the target culture. Reception lays its focus on the receiving culture, especially on critcism, reading, and interpretation. Translation, therefore, forms a major factor in reception with the general aim of reception studies being to reveal the wide spectrum of interpretations each text offers. Moreover, translations are the prime instrument in the distribution of literature across linguistic and cultural borders; thus, they pave the way for gaining prestige in the world of literature. The thirty-eight papers included in this volume and dedicated to research in this area were previously read at the ICLA conference 2016 in Vienna. They are ample proof that the field remains at the center of interest in Comparative Literature.

Mothers and Daughters in Arab Women's Literature

Author : Dalya Abudi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004191099

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Mothers and Daughters in Arab Women's Literature by Dalya Abudi Pdf

This study explores the mother-daughter relationship as the most fundamental and most intimate female relationship. It draws on both early and contemporary writings of Arab women to illuminate the traditional and evolving nature of mother-daughter relationships in Arab families and how these family dynamics reflect and influence modern Arab life.