Translation and Anarchism by Fernández, Fruela; Galián, Laura;

Short description:

This innovative collection explores the complex and multifaceted relationship between translation and anarchism, showing how the circulation of key authors and theories on a global scale has been underpinned by language and translation.

Long description:

This innovative collection explores the complex and multifaceted relationship between translation and anarchism, showing how the circulation of key authors and theories on a global scale has been underpinned by language and translation.

Chapters feature case studies from across Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and East Asia that highlight the relevance of multilingual exchanges in the growth of anarchist movements across geographic contexts as well as the decisive role of translation in their evolution and transformation. Through different disciplinary lenses – including history, sociology, philosophy, and comparative literature – the collection charts a relevant area of knowledge that has been clearly under‑researched and aims to foster cross‑disciplinary conversations between scholars in language and translation and social sciences.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars in translation studies, political science, global literature, area studies, and social and cultural history.

"Opening a new perspective on transnational anarchism, this book examines the history and politics of translation. Impressive in its geographic scope and richly interdisciplinary, the volume presents the translator-as-shaper as well as disseminator of ideas. Here, the practice of translation is an act of solidarity and resistance as well as integrity and intellectual prowess. Collectively, the editors and outstanding contributors expose a previously hidden field of grassroots activity to celebrate the endeavours of remarkable, forgotten figures and centre translation in anarchist studies".

- Professor Ruth Kinna, Loughborough University

Table of Contents:

1 "Translation and anarchism: exploring a rich but uncharted relationship" by Fruela Fernández and Laura Galián, 2 "Spectral diffractions of a conscious egoist: Max Stirner translated" by Stefan Baumgarten, 3 "Being, Acting, and Educating as Anarchists at the Turn of the 20th Century: The Role of Translation in the Italian Anarchist Press in Egypt" by Costantino Paonessa, 4 "Comrades Ibsen and Mirbeau in the Río de la Plata anarchist periodical press: translation, circulation, and consecration at the turn of the century" by Lucía Campanella, 5 "Felip Cortiella and the Aesthetics of Catalan Anarchist Translation at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" by Sergi Mainer, 6 "Echoes of Translation Practice from Early Modern Medicine: Japanese Anarchist Revivals of the 'Nature' Discourse" by Sho Konishi, 7 "In Search for a Place-based Equivalent: Translating Anarchism in Colonial and Post-Colonial Korea" by Dongyoun Hwang, 8 "Anarchist translation without anarchist organising. On the Collectif anarchiste de traduction et de scannerisation de Caen" by Fruela Fernández, 9 "From self-publishing to the bookstore: Tracing the Trajectory of Anarchist Translation into Arabic" by Laura Galián, 10 "Being Couldn't Give a Fuck About Power, Or Translation and Anarchism in Philosophy" by Carolyn Shread, Index.