CALL FOR PAPERS
The Literary Translation Discussion Group, in
conjunction with the MPhil in Literary Translation at
Trinity College Dublin, is pleased to announce a
conference:
TRANSLATION & CENSORSHIP
Dublin, Saturday 15 October 2005
Keynote speaker: Maria Tymoczko, Professor of
Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts
Amherst
Literary translators are usually expected to produce
an acceptable text in a new language, creatively
conveying the meaning and force of the original.
Acceptability is a broad concept, and will sometimes
prompt innocent minor adjustments, such as the
non-literal translation of swear-words where the
source culture is less shockable than the target
culture and a literal translation would actually
misrepresent the interpersonal meaning of the source
text. More questionably, published translations can
obscure or conceal "unacceptable" features of an
original text, change characters' names to avoid
unwanted phonic associations, or even suppress whole
sections of the text to create an illusion that
foreign literature shares the value of the local
thought police. What are the proper limits of
censorship? Can it ever be defended? How is it usually
practiced? Do translators automatically attenuate
their texts? What are the links between
self-censorship and public censorship, and how do
these processes differ between original literature and
translated literature? Do they differ across genres?
How do English texts differ from American ones? These
are some of the issues that might be explored at the
TRANSLATION & CENSORSHIP conference.
We would like to invite proposals for papers of 20
minutes that explore aspects of the relationship
between translation and censorship, particularly in a
literary context. If you would like to offer a paper,
please e-mail an abstract of 250 words to
[log in to unmask] (Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Dean of
Faculty of Arts Letters, Trinity College Dublin) to
arrive by Friday 3 June 2005.
http://www.tcd.ie/Arts_Letters/translation/
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