The Experimental Translator

This book celebrates experimental translation, taking a series of exploratory looks at the hypercyborg translator, the collage translator, the smuggler translator, and the heteronymous translator.

The idea isn't to legislate traditional translations out of existence, or to win some kind of literary competition with the source text, but an exuberant participation in literary creativity. Turns out there are other things you can do with a great written work, and there is considerable pleasure to be had from both the doing and the reading of such things.

This book will be of interest to literary translation studies researchers, as well as scholars and practitioners of experimental creative writing and avant-garde art, postgraduate translation students and professional (literary) translators.

Focuses on the largely unknown practice of experimental translation Argues for exuberant participation in literary creativity Sets up three experimental personae (and MOs) for the translator

Autorentext

Douglas Robinson is Professor of Translation Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.

Klappentext

This book celebrates experimental translation, taking a series of exploratory looks at the hypercyborg translator, the collage translator, the smuggler translator, and the heteronymous translator. The idea isn t to legislate traditional translations out of existence, or to win some kind of literary competition with the source text, but an exuberant participation in literary creativity. Turns out there are other things you can do with a great written work, and there is considerable pleasure to be had from both the doing and the reading of such things. This book will be of interest to literary translation studies researchers, as well as scholars and practitioners of experimental creative writing and avant-garde art, postgraduate translation students and professional (literary) translators.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Provocations.- 2. The (Hyper)Cyborg Translator.- 3. The Collage Translator.- 4. The Smuggler Translator.- 5. The Heteronymous Translator.- 6. Conclusion: Between Originality and Derivativity.