Maialen Marin-Lacarta
Biographic Data
| ID | 5945831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maialen Marin-Lacarta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maialen |
| FAMILY NAME | Marin-Lacarta |
| SIGNATURE | MARIN-LACARTA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8444-217X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Using translated Chinese literature to develop multidimensional intercultural competence
This article examines how translated literature can foster intercultural competence in primary and secondary education. Viewing intercultural competence as a core educational objective, it draws on research from foreign language teaching and comparative literature. The study presents a school contest promoting translated Chinese literature in Barcelona, a city with a significant population of Chinese origin. Held in 2023, we received 411 student …
Rethinking translation through relational theories
This article develops a relational theory of translation by bringing classical Chinese philosophy into dialogue with feminist new materialism, thereby opening new ground for (feminist) translation studies through the creation of innovative connections across geographically and chronologically distant epistemologies. Drawing on the foundational Daoist philosophical text Zhuangzi and Karen Barad’s agential realism, it introduces the co-action parad…
Studying indirect translation
Focused on key issues in researching indirect translation, this article presents a dialogue with and between three scholars from different branches of Translation Studies: news translation, interpreting and literary translation. The aim of this dialogue is to address fundamental questions concerning the history of indirect translation studies, the methodological challenges faced by researchers investigating this practice, and the impact of Englis…
Translators as publishers
Motivations for volunteering have rarely been studied in the context of professional literary translators. Instead, studies have mainly focused on amateur translators in areas such as charities, fansubbing, TED, Wikipedia, Skype and Facebook. This paper explores this under-researched topic in the context of ¡Hjckrrh!, a non-profit publisher led by translators who self-publish literary translations in e-book format. As of March 2018, ¡Hjckrrh! had…
Translators revising translators
This article discusses the revision process in a non-profit digital publisher led by translators and aims to fill the research gap with regard to the revision process in literary translation. ¡Hjckrrh! is a non-profit publishing initiative that has published 21 e-books translated from 7 different languages, with the collaboration of 14 translators. This article discusses the revision process in ¡Hjckrrh! by documenting the making of two e-books. …
Mediated and Marginalised
The history and reception of translations of modern and contemporary Chinese literature in Spain form the basis of the discussion in this article. Eighty-four translations of modern and contemporary Chinese literature were published in Spain – either in Spanish or in Catalan – between 1949 and 2010. Using this under-researched corpus as a starting-point, this article explores two interrelated premises: the marginalisation of modern and contempora…
Translators revising translators
This article discusses the revision process in a non-profit digital publisher led by translators and aims to fill the research gap with regard to the revision process in literary translation. ¡Hjckrrh! is a non-profit publishing initiative that has published 21 e-books translated from 7 different languages, with the collaboration of 14 translators. This article discusses the revision process in ¡Hjckrrh! by documenting the making of two e-books. …
Mediated and Marginalised
The history and reception of translations of modern and contemporary Chinese literature in Spain form the basis of the discussion in this article. Eighty-four translations of modern and contemporary Chinese literature were published in Spain – either in Spanish or in Catalan – between 1949 and 2010. Using this under-researched corpus as a starting-point, this article explores two interrelated premises: the marginalisation of modern and contempora…
Translators revising translators
This article discusses the revision process in a non-profit digital publisher led by translators and aims to fill the research gap with regard to the revision process in literary translation. ¡Hjckrrh! is a non-profit publishing initiative that has published 21 e-books translated from 7 different languages, with the collaboration of 14 translators. This article discusses the revision process in ¡Hjckrrh! by documenting the making of two e-books. …
Mediated and Marginalised
The history and reception of translations of modern and contemporary Chinese literature in Spain form the basis of the discussion in this article. Eighty-four translations of modern and contemporary Chinese literature were published in Spain – either in Spanish or in Catalan – between 1949 and 2010. Using this under-researched corpus as a starting-point, this article explores two interrelated premises: the marginalisation of modern and contempora…
Translators as publishers
Motivations for volunteering have rarely been studied in the context of professional literary translators. Instead, studies have mainly focused on amateur translators in areas such as charities, fansubbing, TED, Wikipedia, Skype and Facebook. This paper explores this under-researched topic in the context of ¡Hjckrrh!, a non-profit publisher led by translators who self-publish literary translations in e-book format. As of March 2018, ¡Hjckrrh! had…
Studying indirect translation
Focused on key issues in researching indirect translation, this article presents a dialogue with and between three scholars from different branches of Translation Studies: news translation, interpreting and literary translation. The aim of this dialogue is to address fundamental questions concerning the history of indirect translation studies, the methodological challenges faced by researchers investigating this practice, and the impact of Englis…
Rethinking translation through relational theories
This article develops a relational theory of translation by bringing classical Chinese philosophy into dialogue with feminist new materialism, thereby opening new ground for (feminist) translation studies through the creation of innovative connections across geographically and chronologically distant epistemologies. Drawing on the foundational Daoist philosophical text Zhuangzi and Karen Barad’s agential realism, it introduces the co-action parad…
Using translated Chinese literature to develop multidimensional intercultural competence
This article examines how translated literature can foster intercultural competence in primary and secondary education. Viewing intercultural competence as a core educational objective, it draws on research from foreign language teaching and comparative literature. The study presents a school contest promoting translated Chinese literature in Barcelona, a city with a significant population of Chinese origin. Held in 2023, we received 411 student …
Translation Studies and Practices (5 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Social science (2 works)