Ethics, Aesthetics and Décision
Literary Translating in the Wars of the Yugoslav Succession
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4344418 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francis R Jones (0000-0003-4875-5296, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 711-728 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Meta Journal des traducteurs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-0452 • E-ISSN: 1492-1421 |
| Publisher | Consortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.7202/009777ar |
| OpenAlex | W2063194458 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 13 |
This is a participant-interpreter study of how issues of loyalty, ethics and ideology condition the action of a literary translator. A case-study is presented of the author's socio-ethical dilemmas and decisions while translating Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian literature into English during the 1990s. This aims both to contribute to the socio-cultural historiography of that period and to illustrate how a literary translator might perform in settings of acute socio-cultural conflict. The case-study observations are then used to explore the nature of the literary translator as a textual and social actor. The "constrained autonomy" of the literary translator is seen as having several key implications. Among these are: that all translating acts have ethical and socio-political repercussions; that partiality informed by awareness of the demands of the wider social web may often be a more appropriate stance than neutrality; that the power structures within which the literary translator acts are more important than target language or translating strategy per se in determining source-culture representation, and that time/workload/chance factors may also play a role here; and that confronting Derrida'sindécidableis a defining feature of translator autonomy
Aesthetics · Autonomy · Bosnian · Epistemology · Ideology · Journalism · Linguistics · Literary criticism · Literary science · Media studies · Neutrality · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · Serbian · Sociology · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Law · linguistics and terminology studies · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
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The role of ethics in translation and in Translation Studies research
Literary translation and communication
Death on the Page, Rebirth on the Screen
Situating Discourse on Translation and Conflict
A profession in the making
Deconstruction and Translation
How Balkan Am I? Translation and Cultural Intimacy Through an Albanian-Greek Lens
Contextualization in translator- and interpreter-mediated events
| Citations per year | 0.45 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |