Gender in Translation: Cultural Identity and the Politics of Transmission (Translation Studies (Routledge))

✍ Scribed by Sherry Simon

• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Перевод и переводоведение;