Translating Holocaust literature / / Peter Arnds (ed.).

• Superior document: V&R Academic
• TeilnehmendeR: Arnds, Peter O., 1963-
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : V&R unipress,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: V&R academic.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (156 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: "With 7 figures."

In his testimony on his survival in Auschwitz Primo Levi said "our language lacks words to express this offense, the demolition of a man". If language, if any language, lacks the words to express the experience of the concentration camps, how does one write the unspeakable? How can it then be translated? The limits of representation and translation seem to be closely linked when it comes to writing about the Holocaust - whether as fiction, memoir, testimony - a phenomenon the current study examines. While there is a spate of literature about the impossibility to represent the Holocaust, not much has been written on the links between translation in its specific linguistic sense, translation studies, and the Holocaust, a niche this volume aims to fill.

Table of Contents

The Dresden Archive Project: A contemporary artwork / Alan Turnbull -- Translating the Passion of Ravensbruck: Ted Hughes and Janos Pilinszky / Tara Bergin -- Transforming Subjectivity: Se questo e un uomo in Translation and Adaptation / Alana Fletcher -- Collaborative Translation: The Relational Dimensions of Translating Holocaust Trauma / Bettina Stumm -- Witnessing and Translating: Ulysses at Auschwitz / Francois Rastier -- "The Magical Properties of Creative Sameness: The Role of Translation in Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces" / Rita Horváth -- Berman and Beyond: The Trial of the Foreign and the Translation of Holocaust Literature / Stephanie Faye Munyard -- Translating Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe as a Postmemorial Holocaust Text / Anna Nunan -- Poetry of Memory and Trauma and their Translation / Rosa Marta Gómez Pato -- Translating Memory. Acts of Testimony in Resnais, Cayrol, and Celan / Bastian Reinert.