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  • Gender in Translation

    by Sherry Simon ...
    Series series Translation Studies
    Gender in Translation is a broad-ranging, imaginative and lively look at feminist issues surrounding translation studies. Students and teachers of translation studies, linguistics, gender studies and women's studies will find this unprecedented work invaluable and thought-provoking reading.Sherry Simon argues that translation of feminist texts - with a view to promoting feminist perspectives - is ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Worldwise

    Édouard Roditi’s Twentieth Century

    Edited by Robert Schwartzwald, Sherry Simon ...
    Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived at the flashpoints of history and at the margins of society, providing acute and unsparing observations of literature and political events.Worldwise brings together a wide range of Roditi’s writings, renewing ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Worldwise

    Édouard Roditi’s Twentieth Century

    Edited by Robert Schwartzwald, Sherry Simon ...
    Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived at the flashpoints of history and at the margins of society, providing acute and unsparing observations of literature and political events.Worldwise brings together a wide range of Roditi’s writings, renewing ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Translating Montreal

    by Sherry Simon ...
    With the perspective of a walker moving through a fluid landscape of neighbourhoods and eras Sherry Simon experiences Montreal as a voyage across languages. She traces an evocative history of literary passages across familiar sites - the mythical boulevard Saint-Laurent Mile End Mont Royal - as she follows adventurous cultural translators such as Malcolm Reid A.M. Klein and Pierre Anctil and ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Translation Sites

    A Field Guide

    by Sherry Simon ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    In Translation Sites, leading theorist Sherry Simon shows how the processes and effects of translation pervade contemporary life. This field guide is an invitation to explore hotels, markets, museums, checkpoints, gardens, bridges, towers and streets as sites of translation. These are spaces whose meanings are shaped by language traffic and by a clash of memories.Touching on a host of issues from ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • In Translation

    Honouring Sheila Fischman

    by Sherry Simon ...
    Since the late 1960s Sheila Fischman has worked tirelessly at making the best works of Québécois literature available to English-language readers. Anglophones who have read works by Michel Tremblay, Jacques Poulin, Yves Beauchemin, François Gravel, Anne Hébert, Roch Carrier, and Marie-Claire Blais most likely know these works only through Fischman's subtly and faithfully crafted translations.In ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Translating Montreal

    Episodes in the Life of a Divided City

    by Sherry Simon ...
    Translating Montreal follows the trajectories of adventurous cultural translators such as Malcolm Reid, F.R. Scott, and A.M. Klein - pioneers of the 1950s and 1960s - Pierre Anctil, whose translations from Yiddish to French are emblematic of the dramatic reroutings now occurring across the Montreal landscape, and contemporary writer-translators such as Gail Scott, Erin Mouré, Jacques Brault, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Changing the Terms

    Translating in the Postcolonial Era

    Edited by Sherry Simon, Paul St-Pierre ...
    Series series Regards sur la traduction | Perspectives on Translation
    This volume explores the theoretical foundations of postcolonial translation in settings as diverse as Malaysia, Ireland, India and South America. Changing the Terms examines stimulating links that are currently being forged between linguistics, literature and cultural theory. In doing so, the authors probe complex sequences of intercultural contact, fusion and breach. The impact that history and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Translation Effects

    The Shaping of Modern Canadian Culture

    Edited by Kathy Mezei, Sherry Simon, Luise von Flotow ...
    Much of Canadian cultural life is sustained and enriched by translation*. Translation Effects* moves beyond restrictive notions of official translation in Canada, analyzing its activities and effects on the streets, in movie theatres, on stages, in hospitals, in courtrooms, in literature, in politics, and across café tables.The first comprehensive study of the intersection of translation and ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Speaking Memory

    How Translation Shapes City Life

    Edited by Sherry Simon ...
    Series series Culture of Cities
    Speaking Memory evokes the complex "language-scapes" that form at the crossroads of culture and history in cities. While engaging with current debates on the nature and role of translation in globalized urban landscapes, the contributors offer a series of detailed and nuanced readings of “translational” cities - their histories, their construction and transformation in memory, and the artistic ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Cities in Translation

    Intersections of Language and Memory

    by Sherry Simon ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    All cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance. These are cities where more than one historically rooted language community lays claim to the territory of the city. This book focuses on four such linguistically divided cities: Calcutta, Trieste, Barcelona, and Montreal.Though living with the ever-present threat of conflict, these cities offer the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries

    by Gerard Bouchard, Les Editions du Boreal ...
    Translated by Howard Scott ...
    Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post-industrial, technologically driven world, myths – Western or Eastern, ancient or modern, religious or scientific – are in fact powerful, pervasive forces.In Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries, Gérard Bouchard ... Read more

    $25.99 USD