Transfiction and Bordering Approaches to Theorizing Translation

D. M. Spitzer is an independent scholar and translator of early Greek thinking (USA). Author of A Heaven Wrought of Iron: Poems from the Odyssey (2016) and editor of Philosophy’s Treason: Studies in Philosophy and Translation (2020), Spitzer’s work has appeared in journals such as Epoché, Research in Phenomenology, and Diacritics. Currently Dr. Spitzer is organizing Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy in Honor of Professor Anthony Preus (Routledge) and writing a book exploring the ways trauma and migration shaped early Greek philosophy. Paulo Oliveira teaches German at the State University of Campinas, and Translation Theory and Foreign Language Didactics at the University of São Paulo (Brazil). Prior and parallel to teaching, he has also gained extensive experience in translating and especially interpreting, mostly in the Humanities. His research includes digital technologies and an interface with semiotics. He currently works on an ‘Epistemology of translating’ of Wittgensteinian extraction and co-edits the Nachlass of Arley Moreno in Philosophy of Language.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Bordering Approaches & Trans-Bordering Themes in Dialogue with the Work of Rosemary Arrojo

D. M. Spitzer

Rosemary Arrojo Career Bibliography

1. The Centrality of the Margins: The Translator’s Footnote as Parergon

Klaus Kaindl

2. Between Omnipotence and Humility: Scliar’s Fictional Translator and Borges’ Pierre Menard

Alice Leal

3. The Representation of the Translator in Chico Buarque de Holanda’s Essa gente: Impertinent Letter, Irony and Co-authorship

Leila Cristina de Melo Darin

4. The Sequestered Home: Translation and Counter-Families in Jane Eyre

Michelle Woods

5. Detours of Babel

D. M. Spitzer

6. Transfiction in Late Soviet Society: The Imaginary East in Semyon Lipkin’s Dekada

Brian James Baer

7. "Scrambled Tongues United in a Single Voice": Transfiction in Contemporary Colombian Literature

Juan G. Ramírez Giraldo and Laura Esperanza Venegas Piracón

8. Fidelity and Performability in Theater (Translation)

Ruth Bohunovsky

9. Translation Dilemmas in South Korea: Assessing the Translator’s Role in the Global Success of Parasite (2019), The Vegetarian (2016), and Please Look After Mom (2011)

Youn Soo Kim Goldstein

10. The Unfaithful Faithfulness: The Practice of Translation and Arrojo’s post-Nietzschean Insights

Lauro Maia Amorim

11. A Post-Therapeutic ‘*Translation’ Concept

Paulo Oliveira

12. Notes on Translation, Alterity, and Relationality: From the Regimes of Indistinction to the Disclosure of Relation

Mauricio Mendonça Cardozo

13. Towards a Grammatologically Informed Linguistics

Kanavillil Rajagopalan

14. "A Modest Proposal" for a Translation Theory

Lenita Maria Rimoli Pisetta

Index