The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Memory

Sharon Deane-Cox is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Strathclyde, UK, Assistant Editor of Translation Studies, and member of the Young Academy of Scotland. She has published a monograph on Retranslation (2014), while more recent projects include research on the translation of Holocaust memory, Scottish heritage translation, and interpreter history. Anneleen Spiessens is an Assistant Professor at Ghent University and is affiliated with the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication. Her research focuses on ethical, political, and mnemonic aspects of translation. She is the author of Quand le bourreau prend la parole: génocide et littérature (2016).

List of contributors

Introduction

I. Translation and memory of trauma






Translating Holocaust testimony: a translator’s perspective



Translating the perpetrator’s testimony: Kommandant in Auschwitz (Holocaust) and Une saison de machettes (Rwanda)



Translating collective memory of Beslan: Russian state television news coverage of annual commemorations



Conflicting memories of war interpreting



Translation and colonial memory in East Africa



At the intersection of the writing of translations and memory: bridging communities affected by past conflict
II. End-users




Translated Holocaust poetry and the reader



Travelling memory, transcreation and politics: the case of Refugee tales



Mnemonic entrepreneurship and trans(articu)lation of the Philippine national anthem



Translation, memory, and the museum visitor



Reframing collective memory in museums



Heritage interpretation(s): remembering, translating, and utilizing the past
III. Figuring memory and translation




Re-trans-post: translation as memory in Québécois culture



Translating trauma in the literary text: violent pasts in Mathias Énard’s Zone and its English and German versions



Transcultural counter-memory and translation in contemporary Spanish fiction



Translating counter-memory in Australian Aboriginal texts



Postmemory lost: historiographical meta-fiction Jinling Shishan Chai in translation



Collective and corrective memories of a classic: mapping Oliver Twist’s memory in translation
IV. Future trajectories




An archive of hope: translating memories of revolution



Translator memory and archives



The French diplomat and the Omaha shopkeeper: photographs of interpreters, 1873–1910



Translation memory systems



Computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools, translation memory and literary translation



Translation and Inuit memory

Index