35.2432, Books: Walter Benjamin and Cultural Translation: Haberpeuntner (2024)

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Subject: 35.2432, Books: Walter Benjamin and Cultural Translation: Haberpeuntner (2024)

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Date: 06-Sep-2024
From: Rachel Bradshaw [rachel.bradshaw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Walter Benjamin and Cultural Translation: Haberpeuntner (2024)


Title: Walter Benjamin and Cultural Translation
Subtitle: Examining a Controversial Legacy
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
                http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/walter-benjamin-and-cultural-tran
slation-9781350387188/

Author: Birgit Haberpeuntner
Hardback: ISBN: 9781350387188 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 95
Abstract:

Dissecting the radical impact of Walter Benjamin on contemporary
cultural, postcolonial and translation theory, this book investigates
the translation and reception of Benjamin's most famous text about
translation, “The Task of the Translator,” in English language debates
around 'cultural translation'.

For years now, there has been a pronounced interest in translation
throughout the Humanities, which has come with an increasing
detachment of translation from linguistic-textual parameters. It has
generated a broad spectrum of discussions subsumed under the heading
of 'cultural translation', a concept that is constantly re-invented
and manifests in often heavily diverging expressions. However, there
seems to be a distinct constant: In their own (re-)formulations of
this concept, a remarkable number of scholars-Bhabha, Chow, Niranjana,
to name but a few-explicitly refer to Walter Benjamin's “The Task of
the Translator.”


In its first part, this book considers Benjamin and the way in which
he thought about, theorized and practiced translation throughout his
writings. In a second part, Walter Benjamin meets 'cultural
translation': tracing various paths of translation and reception, this
part also tackles the issues and debates that result from the
omnipresence of Walter Benjamin in contemporary theories and
discussions of 'cultural translation'. The result is a clearer picture
of the translation and reception processes that have generated the
immense impact of Benjamin on contemporary cultural theory, as well as
new perspectives for a way of reading that re-shapes the canonized
texts themselves and holds the potential of disturbing, shifting and
enriching their more 'traditional' readings.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Translation

Written In: English (eng)



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