Literature in Translation : Teaching Issues and Reading Practices.

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Main Author: Maier, Carol
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Kent State University Press, 2013
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: General Principles; Choosing and Introducing a Translation; Translation Theory and Its Usefulness; "Toto, I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore": Reading and Presenting Texts in Translation from "Familiar" Cultures; "Take It with a Grain of MSG": Reading Translated Literatures from Other Shores; Fictional Texts as Pedagogical Tools; Between Reading and Writing; Translation Transvalued; Part Two: Issues and Contexts; Identity and Relationships; Identity and Relationships in Translated Japanese Literature.
  • Literature as Identity Formation: Reading Chinese Literature in TranslationIdentity and Relationships in the Context of Latin America; Nordic Exposure: Teaching Scandinavian Literature in Translation; Power Struggles; Translations from South Asia: The Power of Babel; African Europhone Literature in Translation: Language, Pedagogy, and Power Differentials; The North-South Translation Border: Transnationality in the New South American Writing; Beliefs and Values; Translating Eastern Europe and Russia; Translation of Modern and Contemporary Literature in Arabic.
  • Hebrew Poetry, Ancient and Contemporary, in TranslationNotes on Contributors; Index.