Translation Studies

This review covers books in Translation Studies which were published in 2009 and 2010. The list is lengthy, strong evidence of the continued growth of the discipline and the intense activity in both ‘traditional’ and new spheres. Despite the range, there are five relatively clear foci, which determine the different sections of this review: 1. Translation Theory, which includes a description of several new and important anthologies of writings on translation, most notably Routledge’s four-volume Translation Studies in its Critical Concepts in Linguistics series; 2. Non-Western Theories and Contexts, notably India, Japan and China. These are evidence of the continuing internationalization of Translation Studies and the challenges to the fixed views of translation that have grown out of the bias of the subject towards European languages and contexts; 3. Globalization, Conflict and News Translation. This area saw a flurry of interest and publications, partly linked to urgent ethical questions about the role and treatment of interpreters in the Iraq war in particular; 4. Translation History, including publication of Volume II of the Oxford History of Literary Translation in English and the first English translation of Antoine Berman’s Toward a Criticism: John Donne, edited and translated by Françoise Massardier-Kenney; 5. Literary Translation, no longer so dominant.

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