Title & Author:

Speaking memory : how translation shapes city life / edited by Sherry Simon.

Publication:

Montréal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

vi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

The culture of cities

Notes:
All the translated articles included in this volume were originally written in French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Locating Vilnius on the Map of Translation / Laimonas Briedis -- A Modernist city resisting translation? Trieste between Slovenia and Italy / Katia Pizzi -- (Ethni)city under scrutiny: or, tell me which Prague you like and I'll tell you which nation you are (not)! / Matteo Colombi -- Language edges: reading the Habsburg Border City / Sherry Simon -- Digital Dublin: translating the cybercity / Michael Cronin -- Monolingualism and plural narratives: the translation of suffering in the language of the city / Simon Harel (Translated by Carmen Ruschiensky) -- The exilic city / Alexis Nouss (Translated by Carmen Ruschiensky) -- Media networks and language-crossing in Montreal / Will Straw -- Medial translations and human undersettlements: planetary urbanisms in McLuhan and Flusser / Michael Darroch -- Linguistic zones of the French Atlantic / Bill Marshall -- Antônio de Alcântara Machado's Brás, Bexiga e Barra Funda as a translation of São Paulo during Brazilian Modernism / Roch Duval -- Artivism as a form of urban translation: an indisciplinary hypothesis / Myriam Suchet and Sarah Mekdjian (Translated by Carmen Ruschienksy) -- Montreal's third spaces on foot / Andre Furlani.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"Exploring a wide variety of examples from both the past and present, this collection defines cities as fields of translational forces, of languages in conversation and in tension. From the 19th century multilingual border city to today's metropolis, language fractures and connections shape urban territory, giving the city its distinctive sensibility. Like architecture and urban planning, like the creation of monuments, translation defines the memories which survive, the narratives which tell the story of the city. Choosing what to remember is always a conflictual process, and particularly in cities with histories with internal language strife, acts of translation are a crucial part of this struggle. The essays draw a variegated portrait of the translational city, highlighting spaces of accelerated exchange and heightened language awareness. The contributions discuss cities across Europe (with particular attention to its Eastern borderlands) and the Americas (Canada, the US, Brazil, Uruguay). Emblematic imp.

ISBN:

9780773547889 (cloth)
0773547886
9780773547896 (paper)
0773547894
9780773548596
9780773548602

Subject:

Urban dialects.
Languages in contact.
Translating and interpreting.
Cities and towns.
Sociolinguistics.
Cities
Translating
Dialectes urbains.
Langues en contact.
Traduction.
Villes.
Sociolinguistique.
cities.
sociolinguistics.

Added entries:

Simon, Sherry, 1948- author, editor.
Culture of cities.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293840
Call No.: BIB 239039
Status: Available