OFICIOS: TRADUCTORA, del japonés al castellano | Episodio 2 | Mariana Alonso | Booktube Argentina
Mariana Alonso, de profesión editora, se dedica a traducir al castellano obras de literatura japonesa que considera fundamentales y que, hasta llegar a sus manos, permanecían inéditas en español. «En Estados Unidos está la mayor parte de la crítica literaria de la literatura japonesa y ellos hacen como una especie de colador y nos llega lo que ellos quieren», asegura Mariana. En esta entrevista, la segunda del ciclo Oficios, Mariana nos cuenta cómo trabajan en También el caracol -la editorial que fundó junto a Miguel Sardegna- y nos da la mano para desandar juntos el camino hacia la isla del otro lado del mundo.
Translations of the Harlem series of detective novels by African-American author Chester Himes (1909-1984) became widely available and popular in the Editorial Bruguera (Barcelona) Serie Novela Negra between 1977 and 1981. Earlier efforts by Barral Editores (Barcelona) in its Serie Negra Policial (1973-1975) provided the initial boost for the Bruguera boom by seeking authorization for several of these novels from the censors in Spain in 1973, publishing a translation in 1975 and commissioning a translation which would be published by Bruguera in 1980. Examples from the 1975 translation, by Mario Albarcín, are analyzed. Argentinian writers and translators were behind the management of Bruguera (Ricardo Rodrigo), the editorial role in the series (Juan Carlos Martini) and the translations themselves (Ana Goldar, Ana María Becciú, Carlos Peralta and Marcelo Cohen). Examples of Himes’s style, including increasingly intensified swearing, increasingly explicit sex-related language, graphic violence and gore, humorous descriptions and frequent usage of hard-boiled criminal slang are analyzed. All Argentinian translators use exclusively European Spanish rather than their specific Latin American variety. Some patterns of attenuation, omission and standardization of slang are detected and discussed.
Marina, Beatriz de la Fuente, Iris Holl, Isabel Gallego Gallardo, Almudena Vázquez Solana, Ingrid Cáceres Würsig, Paloma Ortiz-de-Urbina, Rosa Marta Gómez Pato, et al. La Traducción y sus meandros, Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 2022.
Este volumen reúne una serie de artículos en torno a la traducción y la interpretación en el par de lenguas alemán-español. Se estructura en distintas secciones temáticas, como reflejo de los diversos enfoques a los que da cabida: teoría de la traducción, historia de la traducción, traducción literaria, traducción especializada, lingüística, didáctica de la traducción e interpretación. En estas páginas se encontrarán enfoques históricos como los que pasan revista a las traducciones de la obra romántica Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte, de la tetralogía wagneriana El anillo del Nibelungo o de los cuentos más emblemáticos de los hermanos Grimm. En otros artículos, los autores reflexionan sobre sus propias experiencias de traducción, incluyendo la esfera de la autotraducción. Se adoptan también perspectivas novedosas, como el análisis de los textos periodísticos de temática medioambiental desde una perspectiva ecolingüística o la aplicación de las teorías queer al análisis de traducciones. No faltan tampoco las contribuciones en el área de la lingüística contrastiva, de la lingüística de corpus y de la traducción especializada (catalogación de errores en la traducción biosanitaria, la fraseología en los textos jurídicos y médico-farmacéuticos, la hibridez textual, los neologismos relacionados con el terrorismo y los eufemismos de la crisis económico-financiera). Se abordan asimismo cuestiones relacionadas con la didáctica, como una reevaluación del método de gramática y traducción o el estudio de los argumentos elaborados por los estudiantes en los comentarios de traducción. Finalmente, los artículos dedicados a la interpretación estudian la comunicación intercultural en la antigua colonia alemana de Namibia, el lenguaje no verbal en la interpretación para los servicios públicos o el humor en conexión con la interpretación simultánea. Les deseamos un placentero viaje por estos meandros de la traducción e interpretación en el par de lenguas alemán-español.
Rodríguez Hernández, A. «Solo esto esperaba yo, ser traducido»: las traducciones al inglés de Niebla (1914), una nivola de Miguel de Unamuno. Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 2022
[SPA] presente estudio explora una de las facetas de la obra del escritor Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) a las que apenas se le ha prestado atención, la traducción de sus obras al inglés. Tras estudiar la relación del autor con el campo de la traducción y con los traductores de su obra, nos centraremos en las cinco traducciones que existen de Niebla (1914), una de sus obras más célebres, con el objetivo de establecer las diferencias y similitudes entre los traductores de esta novela, las editoriales que las han publicado y los textos traducidos. También llevaremos a cabo un análisis comparativo entre las traducciones y el texto original a fin de identificar las diferentes técnicas y métodos de traducción que se han empleado en cada una de las versiones. Con los resultados que obtengamos de este estudio, intentaremos identificar las causas por las que esta novela ha sido retraducida un total de cuatro veces. Nos gustaría abrir una nueva vía de investigación sobre las traducciones de los textos unamunianos en diferentes lenguas, ya que es un campo aun sin estudiar y que cuenta con multitud de materiales disponibles para su análisis.
[ENG] In this study we explore one of the aspects of Miguel de Unamuno’s (1864-1936) works which remains virtually untouched, i.e. the translation of his novels into English. After examining the relationship between the author, the field of translation studies and the translators of his works, we focus on the five existing translations of Niebla (1914), one of his most acclaimed works, with the objective of identifying the differences and similarities between the translators of this novel, the publishing houses which have produced them and the texts themselves. Moreover, we carry out a comparative analysis between the translations and the original text in order to identify the different translation techniques and methods used in each English version. We hope that the results obtained in this research project will help us to identify why this novel has been retranslated a total of four times. We seek to open new lines of investigation revolving around the translations of Unamuno’s texts into different languages, given that this is a field that has somehow remained unexplored and that offers multiple future avenues of scholarly inquiry.
Guía para auxiliares de conversación españoles en Noruega 2020-2021. 2020. Secretaría General Técnica. Centro de Publicaciones. Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional, Redinet, 2020.
El programa de Auxiliares de Conversación permite que estudiantes universitarios españoles en los últimos cursos de estudio o ya graduados puedan disfrutar de un curso escolar en centros educativos de enseñanza primaria o secundaria de Noruega para apoyar al profesorado de español en sus labores docentes. Las condiciones generales de participación en el programa y los requisitos específicos para cada país son publicados anualmente por el Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional mediante la correspondiente convocatoria pública.
This book explores translation of feminism in China through examining several Chinese translations of two typical feminist works: The Second Sex (TSS, Beauvoir 1949/1952) and The Vagina Monologues (TVM, Ensler 1998). TSS exposes the cultural construction of woman while TVM reveals the pervasiveness of sexual oppression toward women. The female body and female sexuality (including lesbian sexuality) constitute a challenge to the Chinese translators due to cultural differences and sexuality still being a sensitive topic in China. This book investigates from gender and feminist perspectives, how TSS and TVM have been translated and received in China, with special attention to how the translators meet the challenges. Since translation is the gateway to the reception of feminism, an examination of the translations should reveal the response to feminism of the translator as the first reader and gatekeeper, and how feminism is translated both ideologically and technically in China. The translators’ decisions are discussed within the social, historical, and political contexts. Translating Feminism in China discusses, among other issues: Feminist Translation: Practice, Theory, and Studies Translating the Female Body and Sexuality Translating Lesbianism Censorship, Sexuality, and Translation This book will be relevant to postgraduate students and researchers of translation studies. It will also interest academics interested in feminism, gender studies and Chinese literature and culture. Zhongli Yu is Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC).
This groundbreaking work is the first full book-length publication to critically engage in the emerging field of research on the queer aspects of translation and interpreting studies. The volume presents a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives through fifteen contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars in the field to demonstrate the interconnectedness between translation and queer aspects of sex, gender, and identity. The book begins with the editors’ introduction to the state of the field, providing an overview of both current and developing lines of research, and builds on this foundation to look at this research more closely, grouped around three different sections: Queer Theorizing of Translation; Case Studies of Queer Translations and Translators; and Queer Activism and Translation. This interdisciplinary approach seeks to not only shed light on this promising field of research but also to promote cross fertilization between these disciplines towards further exploring the intersections between queer studies and translation studies, making this volume key reading for students and scholars interested in translation studies, queer studies, politics, and activism, and gender and sexuality studies.
Ethics and Aesthetics of Translation engages with translation, in both theory and practice, as part of an interrogation of ethical as well as political thought in the work of three bilingual European authors: Bernardo Atxaga, Milan Kundera and Jorge Semprún. In approaching the work of these authors, the book draws upon the approaches to translation offered by Benjamin, Derrida, Ricœur and Deleuze to highlight a broad set of ethical questions, focused upon the limitations of the monolingual and the democratic possibilities of linguistic plurality; upon our innate desire to translate difference into similarity; and upon the ways in which translation responds to the challenges of individual and collective remembrance.
Each chapter explores these interlingual but also intercultural, interrelational and interdisciplinary issues, mapping a journey of translation that begins in the impact of translation upon the work of each author, continues into moments of linguistic translation, untranslatability and mistranslation within their texts and ultimately becomes an exploration of social, political and affective (un)translatability. In these journeys, the creative and critical potential of translation emerges as a potent, often violent, but always illuminating, vision of the possibilities of differentiation and connection, generation and memory, in temporal, linguistic, cultural and political terms.
Terminological consistency and accuracy are key indicators of institutional translation quality and a condition for semantic univocity and certainty with regard to legal terms translated at international organizations. They are accordingly important guiding principles in institutional terminology management. This chapter examines variations of consistency and accuracy levels in the translations of three selected terms that are representative of different degrees of legal asymmetry in English-Spanish translation, as well as the congruity of these translations with the recommendations found in the corresponding institutional terminological resources in three settings: the European Union, the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. The corpora compiled for diachronic comparison include all occurrences of the selected terms (“prima facie evidence,” “tort” and “magistrates’ court”) in two periods: 2005–2015 and 2016–2019. The findings suggest significant correlations between legal asymmetry and translation accuracy levels, and between intertextual consistency and accuracy fluctuations. They also reveal low adherence to the (limited) guidance of institutional terminological resources on legal system-specific terms. Additional qualitative insights are offered regarding the most significant cases of terminological harmonization and on the determining role of translation precedents.
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