Publication
Editors’ introduction: collectors of worlds: translators, history and fiction
| Summary: | What happens to translators when these agents of representation become themselves objects of representation? This is the question that underlies the present issue of Dedalus journal and to which our contributors attempt to respond based on case studies from different literary traditions and chronologies and through the lens of history or historiography. It has been prepared as an output of the MOV. Moving Bodies: Circulations, Narratives, and Archives in Translation research cluster hosted by the Centre for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon, whose ultimate mission is to give voice and visibility to translators from multiple epistemological and interdisciplinary approaches. Through this special issue of Dedalus, it is our purpose to explore the compelling connections between fiction, translators and translation, and history. |
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| Main Authors: | Pinto, Marta Pacheco |
| Other Authors: | Duarte, João Ferreira; Lopes, Hélder |
| Subject: | Estudos de tradutor Representação ficcional de tradutores História da tradução |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Document type: | book part |
| Access type: | open access |
| Associated institution: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Origin: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Summary: | What happens to translators when these agents of representation become themselves objects of representation? This is the question that underlies the present issue of Dedalus journal and to which our contributors attempt to respond based on case studies from different literary traditions and chronologies and through the lens of history or historiography. It has been prepared as an output of the MOV. Moving Bodies: Circulations, Narratives, and Archives in Translation research cluster hosted by the Centre for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon, whose ultimate mission is to give voice and visibility to translators from multiple epistemological and interdisciplinary approaches. Through this special issue of Dedalus, it is our purpose to explore the compelling connections between fiction, translators and translation, and history. |
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