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Publication details [#14518]

Flotow, Luise von and Reingard M. Nischik, eds. 2007. Translating Canada (Perspectives on Translation). Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. 352 pp.
Publication type
Edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
culture=cultural approach | image studies=imagology | interculturality=transculturality=cross-culturality | literary translation | reception
Main ISBN
9780776606613

Abstract

Translating Canada examines cultural materials exported by Canada in addition to those selected for acquisition by German publishers, theatres, and other culture brokers. It also considers the motivations of particular translators and the reception by German reviewers of works by a wide variety of Canadian writers - novelists and poets, playwrights and children's authors, literary and social critics. The book also maps a number of significant roles that translation assumes in the intercultural negotiation of national images and values.
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Articles in this volume

Flotow, Luise von and Reingard M. Nischik. Introduction. 1–7
Flotow, Luise von. Telling Canada’s “story” in German: using cultural diplomacy to achieve soft power. 9–26
Korte, Barbara. “Two solitudes”? Anglo-Canadian literature in translation in two Germanies. 27–51
Müller, Klaus Peter. Translating the Canadian short story into German. 53–78
Oeding, Brita and Luise von Flotow. The "other women": Canadian women writers blazing a trail into Germany. 79–92
Ferguson, Stefan. Margaret Atwood in German/y. 93–110
Gruber, Eva. The alternative frontier: native Canadian writing in German/y. 111–142
Quennet, Fabienne. From Beautiful losers to No logo! German readings of Jewish Canadian writing. 143–163
Glaap, Albert-Reiner. Contemporary (English) Canadian plays in German/y: equivalence in difference. 165–186
Banita, Georgiana. Translated or traduced? Canadian literary and political theory in a German context: Northrop Frye, Michael Ignatieff, and Charles Taylor. 187–217
Seifert, Martina. Selecting Canadiana for the young: the German translation of English Canadian children’s literature. 219–242
Merveldt, Nikola von. French, female, and foreign: French Canadian children’s literature in German translation. 243–255
Jandl, Andreas. Northern lights in German theatres: how Quebec plays come to Germany. 257–268
Oeding, Brita. Low motility: transferring Montreal playwright Stephen Orlov's Sperm Count to Germany. 269–282
Ertler, Klaus-Dieter. Antonine Maillet in Germany: a case study. 283–291

Reviewed by

Bauer, Karin. 2011. Review of Translating Canada. The Translator 17 (1) : 167–169.
Merkle, Denise. 2009. Review of Translating Canada. In Merkle, Denise, ed. Littérature comparée et traductologie littéraire: convergences et divergences [Comparative literature and literary Translation Studies: points of convergence and divergence]. Special issue of Traduction Terminologie Rédaction (TTR) 22 (2): 264–267.