New Perspectives on Gender and Translation: New Voices for Transnational Dialogues

215 Pages·2021·7.372 MB·English

by  Eleonora Federici (editor), Jose Santaemilia (editor)

Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON
GENDER AND TRANSLATION
NEW VOICES FOR TRANSNATIONAL DIALOGUES
Edited by
Eleonora Federici and José Santaemilia
New Perspectives on Gender and
Translation
This collection expands the body of research on the intersection of
gender and translation to highlight perspectives across different countries
in Europe, showcasing developments in the feld from its origins in the
emergence of feminist translation in Quebec over the last 30 years.
Building off seminal work on feminist translation by scholars in Canada
in the 1980s and 1990s, the book explores the evolution of the discipline
in shifting translation practices and research across a range of European
countries, with a focus on underrepresented areas such as Malta, Serbia,
and Poland. The different chapters examine key developments such as
the critical reframing of gender and identity, the viewing of historical
translation activity by women through the lens of ideological and political
motivations, and the analysis of socio-political contexts where feminist
or gender-inspired translation has impacted translators’ practices. The
volume looks concurrently at the European context and beyond it,
putting the spotlight on new voices in translation and gender research in
the region but also encouraging transnational dialogues on key issues in
the discipline, pushing the feld further in new directions.
This book will be of particular interest to scholars in translation
studies, gender studies, and European literatures.
Eleonora Federici is Associate Professor of English and Translation
Studies at the University of Ferrara, Italy.
José Santaemilia is a legal and literary translator and Professor of English
Language and Linguistics at the University of Valencia, Spain.
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New Voices for Transnational Dialogues
Edited by Eleonora Federici and
José Santaemilia
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Title: Gender and translation : new perspectives : new voices for
transnational dialogues / edited by Eleonora Federici and Jose
Santaemilia.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Series: Routledge
advances in translation and interpreting studies | Includes
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Contents
Contributors vii
Introduction: A European Gender and Translation
Geography: A Diversity of Voices for Transnational Dialogues 1
ELEONORA FEDERICI AND JOSÉ SANTAEMILIA
1 Gender and Translation in/from Europe: Reviewing the
Translation and Feminism Interface 9
JOSÉ SANTAEMILIA
2 Three Generations of British Women Translators: Sarah
Austin’s Legacy in the Long Nineteenth Century 33
CLAUDIA CAPANCIONI
3 Multilingualism and Women Translators in the
Mediterranean Island of Malta 48
CLARE VASSALLO
4 Polish Women Translators in the Twentieth Century 78
EWA RAJEWSKA
5 There Is Only One Way in Serbia: The Reception of Gender
Equality in Serbian Translation 92
SONJA ĐURIĆ
6 Reclaiming Ancestry/Resisting Amnesia: Finding the “Other”
Half in Portuguese-American Women Writers 106
MARIA AMÉLIA RIBEIRO DE CARVALHO
vi C ontents
7 “The Personal Is Political”: Radical Feminism and
Translation in the Post-Franco Era 123
PILAR GODAYOL
8 Feminisms across the Ocean: Translating Theories and Practices 139
ELEONORA FEDERICI
9 (Un)Successful Feminisms?: Mapping Chick Lit Fiction in Europe 157
VANESSA LEONARDI
10 Marie Darrieussecq, Translator: Or How to Write French
from a Female Body 177
PASCALE SARDIN
Index 191
Contributors
Claudia Capancioni is Reader in English Literature and Programme Leader
for English at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK, and the
Director of the Heritage Education Trust. She is part of the Organising
Committee of the Lincoln Book Festival. Among her latest publications
are “Janet Ross’s Intergenerational Life Writing: Female Intellectual
Legacy through Memoirs, Correspondence, and Reminiscences,” Life
Writing 14 (2017); “A Visit to the Brontë Parsonage: Metamorphoses of
Charlotte Brontë in Michèle Roberts’ The Mistressclass” in Metamorfosi
vittoriane/Victorian Metamorphoses, edited by R. D’Agnillo and A.E.
Soccio (2020); and “Provincial newspapers, sports reporting and the
origins, rise and fall of women’s football: Lincolnshire, 1880s–1940s,”
Midland History 45 (2020).
Sonja Đurić (Djuric) obtained a PhD degree at the Universitat de València,
Spain, where she is currently a researcher for the GENTEXT research
group. Her ongoing research lies in the feld of literature, James Joyce,
translation, sexuality, medical translation, feminism, gender equality, and
censorship. She graduated from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. She
specialised in the topic of Anglicisms and holds a master’s degree from
the same university. She is an editor for Engrami─Journal for Clinical
Psychiatry, Psychology and Related Disciplines and Onlinelektorat.
Đurić is a coauthor of several books and glossaries of terms. She has
published a number of scientifc papers, the last of which is in the 2020
issue of Joyce Studies Italy.
Eleonora Federici is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation
Studies at the Università di Ferrara, Italy. Her main areas of research
are literary and LSP translation, LSP (especially the languages of tour-
ism and advertising), gender studies, and feminist utopias and science
fction. She has published widely on specialised translation, translation
and gender, postcolonial translation, cultural representations in media,
and CDA in tourism and advertising texts. She has edited journals’
monographic issues, the latest one with A. De Marco and A. Magnan
Park, “Language and Translation in the Pacifc” for the Journal of New
viii C ontributors
Zealand and Pacifc Studies (2019). Among her books are The Translator
as Intercultural Mediator (2006), Translating Gender (2011), Bridging
the Gap between Theory and Practice in Translation and Gender Studies
(2013 with V. Leonardi), Quando la fantascienza è donna. Dalle utopie
del XIX secolo all’età contemporanea (2015), and Translation Theory
and Practice Cultural Differences in Tourism and Advertising (2018).
Pilar Godayol is Full Professor of Translation Studies at the Universitat
de Vic/Universitat Central de Catalunya. She currently coordinates the
Gender Studies Research Group: Translation, Literature, History, and
Communication (GETLIHC) and she has led different R&D projects. Her
research interests include gender and translation, feminist historiography
of translation, and censorship and translation. She is the author of over
100 publications, including Espais de frontera. Gènere i traducció (2000)
(Spazi di frontiera. Genere e traduzione, 2002); Tres escritoras censur-
adas. Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan & Mary McCarthy (2017);
with Annarita Taronna, Foreign Women Authors under Fascism and
Francoism: Gender, Translation and Censorship (2018); and Feminismes
i traducció (1965–1990) (2020). She coordinates the series BTI (Biblioteca
de Traducció i Interpretació) at Eumo Editorial.
Vanessa Leonardi is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation
Studies at the Università di Ferrara, Italy. Her research interests lie mainly
in the felds of translation studies, gender studies, and English language
teaching. She has published profusely in the feld of translation studies. Her
major publications include Gender and Ideology in Translation (2007),
The Role of Pedagogical Translation in Second Language Acquisition
(2010), Cognitive English Grammar (2012), and Ideological Manipulation
of Children’s Literature through Translation and Rewriting (2020). She
has been invited as keynote speaker to several international conferences.
Ewa Rajewska is a literary and translation studies scholar, editor, and lit-
erary translator. She is professor and head of the MA Translation spe-
cialisation at the Institute of Polish Philology, Uniwersytet im. Adama
Mickiewicza, Poznań, Poland. She is the author of Stanisław Barańczak—
poeta i tłumacz (Stanisław Barańczak—a poet and a translator, 2007)
and Domysł portretu: O twórczości oryginalnej i przekładowej Ludmiły
Marjańskiej (An implied portrait: On the literary and translation works
of Ludmiła Marjańska, 2016). She is the translator of, among others,
Kenneth Burke’s The Philosophy of Literary Form into Polish (Filozofa
formy literackiej, 2014).
Maria Amélia Ribeiro de Carvalho is Reader at the Universidade do
Minho, Portugal, where she is part of the CEHUM Centro de Estudios
Humanisticos. She participates in the research project “Women, Arts
and Dictatorship.” Among her latest publications are “The Translation
Zone: A New Comparative Literature,” in Ana Gabriela Macedo
Contributors ix
(ed.), Estudos Comparatistas e Comparativismo: Pós-Colonialidade,
Tradução, Arte e Género. Braga: Húmus (2017); and the translation of
M.E. Keating, “Vanishing boundaries: Fernando Pessoa and his trans-
lators,” in M.P. Pinto, R.B. Maia, and S.R. Pinto, How Peripheral Is
the Periphery: Translation Studies in Portugal. Tribute to João Ferreira
Duarte. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2015).
José Santaemilia is Full Professor of English at the Universitat de València,
Spain, where he teaches legal translation in the Degree in Translation
and Interlinguistic Mediation, as well as professional deontology
and ethics and introduction to research in the MA in Creative and
Humanistic Translation. He has published extensively on gender, sexu-
ality, and translation. A few examples are: Género, lenguaje y traducción
(Valencia, 2003); Gender, sex and translation: The manipulation of iden-
tities (Manchester, 2005); and Woman and Translation: Geographies,
Voices and Identities (MONTI 2011, co-edited with Luise von Flotow).
Recently he has edited Traducir para la igualdad sexual/Translating for
Sexual Equality (2017) and Feminismo(s) y/en traducción/Feminism(s)
and/in Translation (2019). With José Pruñonosa, he is author of the
frst critical edition and translation of Fanny Hill into Spanish (Editorial
Cátedra, 2000). He is the director of the GENTEXT research group on
gender and sexual (in)equality issues, and was Editor-in-Chief of the
journal MonTI—Monographies on Translation and Interpretation.
Pascale Sardin is Professor in the English Department of the Université
Bordeaux Montaigne, France. Her research focuses on translation, femi-
nism, theatre, and Samuel Beckett. She is the author of Samuel Beckett
auto-traducteur ou l’art de l’empêchement (Artois Presses Université,
2002) and Samuel Beckett et la passion maternelle ou l’hystérie à L’Oeuvre
(Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2009). She has edited two volumes
of the journal Palimpsestes (Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle) and published
articles in journals such as French Studies, Coup de théâtre, Modernism/
Modernity, MONTI, and Études Britanniques Contemporaines.
Clare Vassallo is Associate Professor of Translation Studies and Semiotics
at L-Università ta’ Malta. A graduate of Philosophy, Linguistics, and
English Literature from L-Università ta’ Malta, she pursued her inter-
est at the interface of these three areas at the Istituto di Comunicazione,
Università di Bologna, Italy, where she was awarded a scholarship to
obtain her PhD in Semiotics under the tutorship of Professor Umberto
Eco in 1996. She has published translations of contemporary Maltese
writers into English and is currently translating Malta’s national poet,
Dun Karm Psaila. She has published a number of papers in various
international peer-reviewed journals and co-guest edited a special issue
of the journal Semiotica, titled Umberto Eco’s Interpretative Semiotics:
Interpretation, Encyclopedia, Translation, in 2015.