The translator as mediator of cultures

Preface

Introduction: Between temples and templates: history's claims on the translator / Probal Dasgupta

Part I. Translation and reconciliation: 1. Translation as reconciliation: A conversation about politics, translation, and multilingualism in South Africa / Antjie Krog, Rosalind C. Morris, and Humphrey Tonkin

2. Interpreting at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY): Linguistic and cultural challenges / Nancy Schweda Nicholson

3. Translating and interpreting sign language: Mediating the DEAF-WORLD / Timothy Reagan

4. Translators in a global community / Jonathan Pool

Part II. Translation and negotiation: 5. The treason of translation? Bilingualism, linguistic borders and identity / John Edwards

6. The poetics of experience: Toward a pragmatic understanding of experience, practice, and translation / Vincent Colapietro

Part III. Translation and the interpretation of texts: 7. Translation and the rediscovery of the multinational Central European / Thomas Cooper

8. Transcriação / Transcreation: The Brazilian concrete poets and translation / K. David Jackson

9. Expression and translation of philosophy: Giorgio Colli, a master of time / Marie-José Tramuta

10. The semantics of invention: Translation into Esperanto / Humphrey Tonkin

Contributors