The Fictions of Translation

320 Pages·2018·16.077 MB·English

by  Judith Woodsworth

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The Fictions of Translation
Benjamins Translation Library (BTL)
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General Editor Honorary Editors
Roberto A. Valdeón Yves Gambier
University of Oviedo University of Turku
& Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Associate Editor
Gideon Toury†
Franz Pöchhacker Tel Aviv University
University of Vienna
Advisory Board
Cecilia Alvstad Christopher D. Mellinger
University of Oslo University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Georges L. Bastin Jan Pedersen
University of Montreal Stockholm University
Dirk Delabastita Luc van Doorslaer
University of Namur University of Tartu & KU Leuven
Daniel Gile África Vidal
Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle University of Salamanca
Krisztina Károly Meifang Zhang
Eötvös Lorand University University of Macau
Volume 139
The Fictions of Translation
Edited by Judith Woodsworth
The Fictions of Translation
Edited by
Judith Woodsworth
Concordia University

With the collaboration of
Gillian Lane-Mercier
Patricia Godbout
Carmen Ruschiensky
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Translation as a master metaphor 1
Judith Woodsworth and Gillian Lane-Mercier
Part I. Translators and translating: Status, identity and process
Chapter 1
The self-translator as author: Modern self-fashioning and ancient
rhetoric in Federman, Lakhous and De Kuyper 15
Rainier Grutman
Chapter 2
Gertrude Stein and the paradox of translation 31
Judith Woodsworth
Chapter 3
The translator’s biography and the politics of representation:
The case of Soviet Russia 49
Brian James Baer
Chapter 4
The perils of polyglossia 67
Esther Allen
Chapter 5
Transcultural conversations in practice: Translating David Mence’s
plays into Italian 83
Angela Tiziana Tarantini
Chapter 6
Nancy Huston: Translation as selfie 97
Jane Koustas
vi The Fictions of Translation
Chapter 7
Traducteurs « privilégiés » : regard sur l’autotraduction
du théâtre fransaskois 117
Elizabeth Saint
Chapter 8
Moving texts: The representation of the translator
in Yoko Tawada’s and Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s stories 139
Arvi Sepp
Part II. Texts, paratexts and contexts: Realities and fictions
Chapter 9
The remaking of the translator’s reality: The role of fiction
in translation studies 157
Klaus Kaindl
Chapter 10
Transfictions of Jack London 171
Véronique Béghain
Chapter 11
La figure de l’infidèle : pulsion traductrice et transport romanesque
(à partir de Proust et de Cervantes) 185
Isabelle Poulin
Chapter 12
Pretending not to be original: Pseudotranslations and their functions 199
Sabine Strümper-Krobb
Chapter 13
La pseudo-traduction traduite : les traductions anglaise, néerlandaise
et allemande de La fille d’un héros de l’Union soviétique d’Andreï Makine 215
Katrien Lievois
Chapter 14
Illustrations and the written text as reciprocal translation:
Two illustrated versions of Anonymous Belfi ha-Gadol 233
Rachel Weissbrod and Ayelet Kohn
Table of contents vii
Chapter 15
L’Homme invisible/The Invisible Man at the theatre:
Blinking between French and English, Ontario and Quebec 253
Nicole Nolette
Chapter 16
Official facts and fictions: The Canada Council’s discourse
on literary translation (1972–2015) 273
Gillian Lane-Mercier
Notes on contributors 297
Index 303

Acknowledgements
On a warm sunny day in May 2013, just as the second Transfiction conference was
winding up in Tel Aviv, and we were still savouring the stimulating discussions and
enriching encounters we had had over the course of the previous days, a few of us
had the fine idea of hosting the next conference in Montreal in May 2015. And so
Transfiction 3, and hence this book, were born. I am indebted to the members of
the Scientific Committee who supported me in selecting papers and designing the
program for the conference: Véronique Béghain (Université Bordeaux Montaigne);
Nitsa Ben-Ari (Tel Aviv University); Patricia Godbout (Université de Sherbrooke);
Gillian Lane-Mercier (McGill University); and Xuanmin Luo (Tsinghua University).
We were assisted in our tasks by a local Organizing Committee, composed of the
Canadian members of the Scientific Committee, along with Concordia represent-
atives Danièle Marcoux, Carmen Ruschiensky, Natalia Teplova and Christine York.
The conference would not have run as smoothly as it did without the assistance
of a team of eager, efficient and gracious students, who helped with everything from
room bookings, signage and the production of the bilingual website and program
to welcoming guests and planning for every coffee break, snack, lunch and dinner.
My sincere thanks go out to Mona Sacui Catrinescu, Nathanaël Dagane, Alexandra
Hillinger, Anastasia Llewellyn, Caeli Martineau, Katie Moore, Johanne Durocher
Norchet, Kelly Oliel, Sylwia Pawlik, Dominique Pelletier and Marie White. Je
tiens également à remercier Louis-Frédéric Pagé (alors étudiant à l’Université de
Sherbrooke) de l’aide précieuse qu’il a apportée à la révision des textes en français.
Funding for the conference was provided by a variety of partner organizations.
I am grateful, first of all, for a significant “Connections” grant from the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Members of the organizing
committee assisted in securing the sponsorship of Université de Sherbrooke and
McGill University. John Benjamins Publishing and the Presses de l’Université de
Laval contributed to the mini-book fair that was held as part of the conference,
and the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada sponsored a highly successful
poetry reading. Concordia University, finally, was extremely generous in its sup-
port through the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies, the
Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, the Département d’études françaises, the Graduate
Students Association in Translation, Figura, and Hospitality Concordia. A portion