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This collection brings together work from memory studies and translation studies to explore the role of interlingual and intercultural translation for unpacking transcultural memory dynamics, focusing on memories of violent pasts across different literary genres.

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This collection brings together work from Memory Studies and Translation Studies to explore the role of interlingual and intercultural translation for unpacking transcultural memory dynamics, focusing on memories of violent pasts across different literary genres.

The book explores the potential of a research agenda that links narrower definitions of translation with broader notions of transfer, transmission, and relocation across temporal and cultural borders, investigating the nuanced theoretical and conceptual dimensions at the intersection of memory and translation. The volume explores memories of violent pasts ? legacies of war, genocide, dictatorship, and exile across different genres and media, including testimony, autobiography, novels, and graphic novels. The collection engages in central questions at the interface of Memory Studies and Translation Studies, including whether traumatic historical experiences that resist representation can be translated, what happens when texts that negotiate such memories are translated into other languages and cultures, and what role translation strategies, translators, and agents of translations play in memory across borders.

The volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in Translation Studies, Memory Studies, and Comparative Literature.

Memory travels in translation. Translation is an act of memory. Translating Memories of Violent Pasts stages a rich conversation between experts from memory studies and translation studies. Their essays not only throw light on where two vibrant research fields meet, but also demonstrate compellingly the stakes of memory translation in our age of violence and trauma. An enlightening read!

Astrid Erll, Goethe University Frankfurt

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Introduction: Translating Memories of Violent Pasts

Claudia Jünke and Désirée Schyns

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1. Thoughts on Translation and Memory





Susan Bassnett






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2. Mnemonic Translation and the Politics of Visibility





Lucy Bond






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3. ?As if carved in stone?: Primo Levi and the (In)Stability of Memory in Translation





Mary Wardle






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4. From ?Living on? to ?Still Alive? and ?Lost on the Way?: Exile, Memory, and Intersectionality as a Translation ?of One?s Own? in Ruth Klüger?s Autobiographical Texts





Marie-Pierre Harder






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5. Modiano?s Dark Light of Remembrance in Translation: Paratextual Mediation of La place de l?étoile in German, Dutch, and English





Désirée Schyns






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6. The Editorial Framing of Polish and Spanish Translations of Jorge Semprún?s Novel Le mort qu?il faut and the Contexts of their Reception





Małgorzata Gaszyńska-Magiera






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7. Robert Schopflocher?s Self-Translation in Argentinian Exile: Reflections on German-Jewish Cultural Memory and Collective Identity





Philippe Humblé and Arvi Sepp






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8. Translatio inferni: Roberto Bola?o?s Memory of the Nazis in America





Nora Zapf






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9. Translating Genocide? The Case of the Witness Esther Mujawayo





Vera Elisabeth Gerling






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10. Translating Wounds in the Contemporary Memoir ? The Genocide in Rwanda and its Aftermath in Clemantine Wamariya?s The Girl Who Smiled Beads (2018)





Katarzyna Macedulska






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11. Translation, Trauma, and Memory in Petit pays (Gaël Faye)





Anneleen Spiessens






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12. Collaborative Translation and the Remediation of Intergenerational Memory in Leila Abdelrazaq?s Baddawi





Tamara Barakat






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13. The Graphic Memoir in a Translational Perspective: Childhood Memories of War in Zeina Abirached?s Mourir partir revenir: Le jeu des hirondelles (2007) and Je me souviens Beyrouth (2008)





Claudia Jünke






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14. Bridging Communities Affected by Past Conflict: Translation and the Processes of Memory

Cecilia Rossi

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List of Contributors