Translation in French and Francophone literature and film
By: edited by James Day
Contributors: French Literature Conference (2008 : University of South Carolina)
Series: French literature series -- vol. 36, 2009
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9789042026483; 9789042026490
Subjects: French literature; Congresses; Translations; French Motion pictures
Other titles: Translation, French literature series
Notes: These papers originated as contributions to the Thirty-Sixth annual French Literature Conference held in March, 2008 at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, South Carolina.

Includes bibliographical references.

Texts in English and French.
Table of contents: title: Public language and the aesthetics of the translating city  -- Sherry Simon; title: Translation and the triumph of French: the case of the Decameron  -- Marion Rothstein; title: This time "the translation is beautiful, smooth, and true": theorizing retranslation with the help of Beauvoir  -- Luise von Flotow; title: Redefining translation through self-translation: the case of Nancy Huston  -- Carolyn Shread; title: Image et voix dans l'espace poétique de Saint-Denys Garneau: analyse du poème Le jeu et d'extraits de ses traductions en anglais et en hongrois  -- Louise Audet; title: Translation as revelation  -- Marjolijn de Jager; title: Werewere Liking as translator and translated  -- Cheryl Toman; title: The great white man of Lambaréné by Bassek ba Kobhio: when translating a colonial mentality loses its meaning  -- Anny Dominique Curtius; title: Traduire la reine Polou: fidélité ou trahison?  -- Sarah Davies Cordova; title: Object lessons: metaphors of agency in Walter Benjamin's "The task of the translator" and Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo magnifique  -- Rose-Myriam Réjouis; title: Translating Maryse Condé's Céanire cou-coupé: dislocations of the Caribbean self in Philcox's Who slashed Celanire's throat? a fantastic tale  -- Rachelle Okawa; title: Intercultural politics: translating postcolonial Lebanese literature in the United States  -- Christophe Ippolito; title: Vu d'ici et là-bas: le roman contemporain français publié en traduction aux États-Unis -- Cindy Merlin.