CFP: ACLA women/translation session

[Sibelan E S Forrester]

This session has been proposed for the 2004 ACLA Convention by Anna
Barker <BarkerAnna at mchsi.com> -- please contact her off-list with any
questions or proposals.  The title/abstract deadline is October 15.
(SF)


ACLA Convention, 15-18 April 2004, Ann Arbor, Michigan
""The Translatress in Her Person Speaks:"
Women Translators and the Art of Cultural Mediation"
This session will attempt to explore various aspects of women
writers' involvement in the linguistic/cultural mediation of the past
five hundred years. Often labeled as a secondary/derivative activity,
translation nonetheless offered women access to the world of letters,
giving them an opportunity to contribute to the intellectual life of
their times. As a matter of fact, translations often helped to start
literary careers (Mary Wollstonecraft's translations of Jacques
Necker and Christian Salzmann, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's
translation of Aeschylus and George Eliot's translation of David
Friedrich Strauss are just a few examples). Participants might choose
to focus on the following writers: Mary Sidney, Margaret Tyler, Aphra
Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, Charlotte Smith,
Germaine de Stael, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Caroline
Schlegel-Schelling, Dorothea Veit-Schlegel, Henriette Herz, Karolina
Pavlova, George Eliot, Margaret Fuller, Eleanor
Marx-Aveling, Constance Garnett, Willa Muir, Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter,
Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Gayatri Spivak, Barbara Godard, Suzanne
Jill Levine. Abstracts on cultural/identity mediation by these and
other women writers/translators are also welcome.

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