Update bibliography on self-translation

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[Cancelled] Conference "Autotraduction : perspectives intertextuelles, transactions esthétiques, circulations transculturelles", 6 & 7 April 2020, Lyon, France

Update: Due to the current crisis, the conference has been cancelled for now.

The conference  "Autotraduction : perspectives intertextuelles, transactions esthétiques, circulations transculturelles" is taking place on 6th & 7th April 2020 in Lyon, France.
Place of the conference: Campus des Quais, Salle Caillemer, 15, quai Claude Bernard, 69007 LYON

6th April
9h10-9h40 Discours d’ouverture par les organisateurs du colloque
Séance matinale, première partie: De l’usage de l’autotraduction en sciences humaines
Séance présidée par Rainier Grutman
9h40-10h10 Anthony Cordingley (Université de Sidney / Paris 8), L’autotraduction : étude
d’une métaphore sans domicile fixe
10h10-10h40 Amanda Murphy (Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle), L’autotraduction : audelà de la comparaison
Séance matinale, seconde partie : L’autotraduction en poésie
11h00–11h30 Anna Saroldi (Université d’Oxford), Self-translating towards the past or the
future? Temporal and linguistic crossings in Jacqueline Risset and Peter Robinson
11h30-12h30 Performance Traduire, s’autotraduire, avec la participation du poète Mohammed
El Amraoui, du traducteur et poète Miloud Gharrafi (Université de Lyon/Université Jean
Moulin-Lyon 3) et d’étudiants du Département d’arabe de la Faculté des Langues de
l’Université de Lyon (Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3) ; animée par Pascale Roux (Université
Grenoble Alpes) et Touriya Fili-Tullon (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
Séance de l’après-midi : L’autotraduction à l’aune des transferts intersémiotiques
Séance présidée par Michaël Oustinoff
14h10-14h40 Hélène Martinelli (Université de Lyon/ ENS, Lyon), Autotraduction, autoillustration, auto-édition
14h40-15h10 Elizabete Manterola Agirrezabalaga (Université du Pays Basque UPV / EHU,
Espagne), Beyond literary self-translation: authorial translations in cinema
15h10-15h40 Georgeta Cristian (Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle), Avatars du « Désir »,
selon Matéi Visniec. De l’écriture auctoriale à la représentation scénique
15h40-16h10 Martina Bolici (Université Grenoble Alpes), F.T. Marinetti, « poète italo-français »
entre réécriture et autotraduction. Une histoire génétique de Poupées électriques à
Fantocci elettrici
16h30-18h30 Table ronde Écrire, s’autotraduire, traduire une œuvre autotraduite, avec la
participation de Luba Jurgenson (écrivaine, traductrice et chercheure à Sorbonne Université
- participation par correspondance), Vladimir Pozner (journaliste et écrivain, Russie),
Maxim D. Shrayer (écrivain, traducteur et chercheur à Boston College, Etats-Unis) et Anne Marie Tatsis-Botton (traductrice, France) ; animée par Anna Lushenkova Foscolo (Université
de Lyon / Université Jean-Moulin Lyon 3)

7th April
Séance matinale : Autotraduction et circulation des savoirs : perspective transculturelle
Séance présidée par Anthony Cordingley
10h00-10h30 Maria Teresa Costa (Max-Planck-Institut, Berlin), Self-translating Art History.
Some case-studies
10h30-11h00 Ioulia Podoroga (Université de Strasbourg), Penser en deux langues : Vassily
Kandinsky et le problème de l’autotraduction
11h00-11h30 Giovanna Targia (Universität Zürich / Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - MaxPlanck-Institut), Iconology Self-Translated: Erwin Panofsky, Edgar Wind, and the Survival
of a Research Method
11h30-12h00 Sara De Balsi (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), Un essai, deux publics : enjeux
de l’autotraduction dans Papà, mamma e gender (2015) et Maman, papa, le genre et moi
(2017) de Michela Marzano

Séance de l’après-midi : Autotraduction : perspectives historiques & pratiques
contemporaines
Séance présidée par Olga Artyushkina
14h00-14h30 Rainier Grutman (Ottawa, Canada), Se traduire à l’ère de la translatio imperii : Le témoignage de quelques préfaces d’autotraducteurs du 16e siècle
14h30-15h00 Gayaneh Armaganian-Le Vu (Université de Lyon / ENS de Lyon), Les
autotraductions françaises en prose de E. Baratynski
15h00-15h30 Britta Benert (Université de Strasbourg), Lou Andreas-Salomé, auto-traductrice ?
15h30-16h00 Simona Anselmi (Université Catholique de Sacré-Coeur, Milan, Italie), Selftranslators in Italy: an investigation into their translatorial habitudes and behavioural
varieties
16h30-17h30 Conclusions du colloque



Link: https://marge.univ-lyon3.fr/medias/fichier/program-autotraduction-avril-2020_1583755202688-pdf

CfP: 1st International Conference on non-literary Self-translation. Self-translation beyond literature

Conference venue and date: Vitoria-Gasteiz, 10th -11th September 2020

Languages: Basque, Spanish and English

Organization: Elizabete Manterola (elizabete.manterola@ehu.eus) & Josep Miquel Ramis (josep.ramis@ub.edu)

Self-translation is a worldwide phenomenon and is particularly present in multilingual environments, yet it only became a topic of investigation in the last decade or so. Today, more and more studies are being devoted to the topic every day and researchers specializing in this subject have been publishing myriad articles, monographs, books and other contributions, which are collected in the bibliography edited by Eva Gentes (https://app.box.com/s/decln58ozaa1ymt7ni66vt5q6l07pj52). Similarly, several

conferences on self-translation have been held, among which two previous ones in the Faculty of Arts of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Self-Translation: local and global (2015) and Autoitzulpena eremu diglosikoetan [Self-translation in diglossic environments] (2017).

So far however, both publications and conferences have mostly focused on literary self-translation, observing and analyzing writers’ bilingualism, author-translator collaborations or reasons why writers translate their own works. This conference aims at offering a different perspective by inviting studies of self-translation in other professional environments. This way, we would like to draw attention to the presence of self-translation in written and audiovisual media as well as the medical, educational orlegal fields, among others. The aim of this colloquium is to observe the differences and similarities between self-translation in literary and non-literary contexts, as well as to open new productive research avenues on literary self-translation.

Paper proposals can be submitted, up until 15th May, on any of the following topics:

• Self-translation and (mass) media
• Self-translation and audiovisual industry
• Self-translation and education
• Self-translation in academic environments
• Self-translation in medical environments
• Self-translation in legal environments
• Differences between literary self-translation and other types of self-translation
• History of non-literary self-translation

Talk: “He Wrecked the Boat.” Code-Switching and Self-Translation in Tlingit Oral Literature

Matthew Spellberg is giving a talk with the title "'He Wrecked the Boat.' Code-Switching and Self-Translation in Tlingit Oral Literature" on Monday, 24th February 2020 at 12:00 pm at Princeton, 144 Louis A. Simpson International Building.

Source: https://piirs.princeton.edu/event/he-wrecked-boat-code-switching-and-self-translation-tlingit-oral-literature

Talk: "The challenges of self-translation and bilingual writing", 10th March, Sydney

Judith Mendoza-White, bilingual Spanish-English writer, will give a talk on the challenges of self-translation and bilingual writing on 10th March at 5:00 pm at the Sydney University Research Community for Latin America seminar, Australia.

Abstract:
In this paper Judith Mendoza-White looks at the challenges involved in the practice of self-translation and bilingual writing, as she writes in Spanish and English and has produced versions of most of her work in both languages. These challenges go beyond the linguistic realm, as cultural connotations and underlying meaning may remain unreachable to the second language speaker, however fluent and accurate her knowledge of the language may be. In addition to this, the writer’s identity can become compromised in the process of self-translation, as feelings of betrayal to the mother tongue may develop. The author will also look at the dual impact of self-translation, both on the mother tongue and the second language pieces: the two final versions of the same work involve recreation and rewriting rather than translation per se, and often affect each other in previously unsuspected ways.

Source with more information:
https://slc-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/surcla-challenges-self-translation-bilingual-writing-judith-mendoza-white/

CfP: Society for Neo-Latin Studies: Philip Ford Annual Postgraduate Day in London

The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is holding its annual Philip Ford Postgraduate Day in London on 20th March 2020.

The focus of the event will be 'Neo-Latin and the Vernacular'. There will be an interactive session on bilingual writing/self-translation in the early modern period led by Dr Sara Miglietti and a talk by Professor Ingrid de Smet on methodology in translating Neo-Latin texts. Additionally, postgraduates and early career researchers will present their papers in two panels (see CFP below). The event will also be an excellent opportunity for MA students and postgraduate, post-doctoral and early career researchers to find out more about Neo-Latin projects, discuss ideas, and meet other scholars in the discipline. 

PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE We may be able to contribute some travel bursaries, and please email Lucy Nicholas (lucy.nicholas@sas.ac.uk) prior to the event in this regard.
Date: 20 March 2020, 12.30pm - 5.00pm
Institute: The Warburg Institute
Type: Workshop
Venue: Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB


CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite proposals from interested postgraduate or postdoctoral researchers for 20-minute papers on any topic related to Neo-Latin and the vernacular(s); they should include the speaker’s affiliation and research interests, an abstract of the paper to be given (c. 150 words) and a provisional paper title.

Proposals should be submitted by 1 March 2020 and speakers will be notified as soon as possible of the outcome of the selection process. Please submit proposals via email to Dr Lucy Nicholas (lucy.nicholas@sas.ac.uk) and Sharon van Dijk (sharon.dijk.18@ucl.ac.uk). If you have any questions or require further information, please also contact Dr Lucy Nicholas or Sharon van Dijk.


Source: https://sas.ac.uk/events/event/22049

New volume: Self-translators on self-translation

Fabio Regattin and Aleassandra Ferraro recently published the volume Gli scrittori si traducono which contains a collection of essays by and interviews with self-translators. Most of these eleven essays and interviews have previously been published in a different language than Italian and have now been translated into Italian. This volume is, thus, especially relevant for Italian-language researchers on self-translation. Each contribution is preceded by a short introduction about the author by the editors. The earliest contribution is by Julien Green from 1941 and the newest is an interview by Fabio Regattin with the German-French self-translator Anne Weber conducted in 2019. The editors opted for a chronological order of the contributions:

Content

• Fabio Regattin: Le testimonianze degli autotradutorri, un primo passo necessario - e ciò che dovrebbe seguire, pp. 7-14
• Julien Green, 1941/1943 - My first book in English / Il mio primo libro in inglese, pp. 15-39
• Dôre Michelut, 1989 - Scendere a patti con la lingua materna, pp. 41-50
• Raymond Federman, 1993 - Una voce dentro una voce: Federman traduce/tradurre Federman, pp. 51-61
• Marco Micone, 2004 - Tradurre, tradire, pp. 63-67
• Nancy Huston, 2007 - Traduttore non è traditore, pp. 69-75
• Jorge Semprún, 2008 - Una conversazione con Jorge Semprún. Autoraduzione, ricordi e modi di riscrivere (intervista di Patricia López López-Gay), pp. 77-87
• Licia Canton, 2015 - Tradursi ogni giorno, pp. 89-95
• Gianna Patriarca, 2015 - La trilogia di una lingua, pp. 97-101
• Vassilis Alexakis, 2015 - "È la storia che ha scelto per me" (intervista di Valeria Sperti), pp. 103-112
• Gao Xingjian, 2018 - Tra cinese e francese (intervista di Simona Gallo), pp. 113-122
• Anne Weber, 2015 e 2019 - "Ciò che mi caratterizza, forse, è il senso sbagliato..." e "È l'originale che è fedele alla traduzione" (interviste di Dirk Weissmann e Fabio Regattin), pp. 123-136.

Reference:
Fabio Regattin & Alessandra Ferraro (eds.): Gli scrittori si traducono, Città di Castello: Casa editrice Emil di Odoya, 2019. ISBN 978-88-6680-325-6, 17 Euros.

I would like to thank Fabio Regattin for sending me a copy of this great volume!

New volume published: Literary Self-Translation in Hispanophone Contexts

The volume Literary Self-Translation in Hispanophone Contexts - La autotraducción literaria en contextos de habla hispana edited by Lila Bujaldón de Esteves, Belén Bistué and Melisa Stocco has recently been published by Palgrave Macmillan. It includes articles written in English or Spanish.
Here is an overview:

• Bujaldón de Esteves, Lila (et al.): Introducción, pp. 1-19 
• Santoyo, Julio-César: Autotraducción y resurgimiento literario indígena en Hispanoamérica, pp. 23-73 
• Gentes, Eva: Self-Translation in Contemporary Indigenous Literatures in Mexico, pp. 75-102 
• Stocco, Melisa: ’Rewritten’ Identities: Self-Translation and Retranslation in Contemporary Mapuche Poetry, pp. 103-141 
• Bistué, Belén: Self-Translation as a Model for Multilingual Writing in Sor Juana’s Villancicos de la Asunción (1676), pp. 145-167 
• Eymar, Marco: La asincronicidad de las lenguas: la autotraducción y la búsqueda de la modernidad en la obra de Vicente Huidobro, pp. 169-217
• Simón, Paula: Self-Translation and Exile in the Work of Catalan Writer Agustí Bartra. Some Notes on Xabola (1943), Cristo de 200.000 brazos (Campo de Argelés) (1958) and Crist de 200.000 braços (1968), pp. 219-237 
• Arrula-Ruiz, Garazi & Elizabete Manterola Agirrezabalga: No a la autotraducción. Razones para renunciar a la traducción de obra propia en el contexto de las relaciones asimétricas entre el castellano y el euskera, pp. 241-285 
• Dasilva, Xosé Manuel: La autotraducción del texto traducido alógrafamente. Nos pagos de Huinca Loo, de Xavier Alcalá, pp. 287-323 
• Ramis, Josep Mique: La direccionalidad de las autotraducciones en la literatura catalana: ejemplos y repercusiones, pp. 325-369 

For a preview, visit this link: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030236243
The book is available as hardcover as well as e-book. Unfortunately, this great volume is quite expensive, so you might want to ask your local university library to buy a copy.

New volume on self-translation "Plurilinguisme et autotraduction"

The volume "Plurilinguisme et autotraduction. Langue perdue, langue 'sauvée'" edited by Anna Lushenkova Foscolo and Malgorzata Smorag-Goldberg has been published by Eur'Orbem.

It includes the following articles:

Part 1: Autotraduction. Cadre théorique

• Rainier Grutman: La double dynamique verticale de l'autotraduction, pp. 17-30
• Vladimir Freshenko: L'autotraduction du texte poétique en quête d'un language universel, pp. 31-48
• Olga Anokhina: L'autotraduction. Ou comment annuler la clôture du texte ?, pp. 49-62
• Hélène Martinelli: Consteller l'origine. Littératures mineures, petites langues et autotraduction en Europe centrale, pp. 63-79

Part 2: Enjeux artistiques, contraintes politiques: d'un territoire à l'autre

• Iryna Dmytrychyn: L'auto-traduction comme geste politique: Olha Kobylianska (1863-1942), de l'allemand à l'ukrainien, pp. 83-96
• Atinati Mamatsashvili: Ecrire en exil: choix de langues, choix idéologiques et esthétiques. Les écrivains géorgiens exilés en France (1939-1945), pp. 97-108
• Yana Egorova-Moral, Guennadi Aigi (1934-2006): entre traduction et création, pp. 109-124.
• Christine Lombez: Régionalisme, Occupation et autotraduction. Autour de la poésie d'Oc et de ses enjeux (1940-1944), pp. 125-133.

Part 3: Se traduire pour se (re)construire: transposition ou (ré)invention. De la modernité littéraire à l'extrême contemporain

• Anna Lushenkova Foscolo: L'autotraduction dans la poésie de Marina Tsvetaeva, pp. 137-158
• Stanley Bill: Translating the World: Milosz in English, pp. 159-172
• Magdalena Lubelska-Renouf: L'auteur, le traducteur et le traductologue. Czeslaw Milosz et sa poésie en français, pp. 173-185
• Sabine Haupt: 'Mein französisches Hirn' et 'le nègre dans man tête'. Auto-traduction et 'auto-aliénation' chez l'écrivaine franco-allemande Anne Weber, pp. 187-197

Part 4: 'Lange perdue, langue sauvée'. Où s'arrête la réécriture?

• Michaël Oustinoff: Mondialisation des imaginaires et hétéronymie de l'oeuvre auto-traduite. Le cas de Vladimir Nabokov, pp. 201-211
• Tatiana Ponomareva: Vladimir Nabokov. Translating for an 'Unborn Reader', pp. 213-221
• Michèle Tauber: Le yiddish sauvé par l'hébreu. Le cas Yos'l Birshteyn, pp. 223-232

Part 5: En guise de bilan

• Eva Gentes: L'auto-traductologie: émergence d'un champ de recherches, pp. 235-256.

ISBN 979-10-96982-13-4, 20 Euros
More information: http://eurorbem.paris-sorbonne.fr/spip.php?article996&lang=fr

Talk "Un/originals: Multilingual Literature and Self-Translation in Contemporary Spain."

Graduate student in Hispanic Studies, Gabriella Martin will give a talk "Un/originals: Multilingual Literature and Self-Translation in Contemporary Spain" on 24th January 2020 at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM  at Danforth University Center, room 239, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Source: https://rll.wustl.edu/events/unoriginals-multilingual-literature-and-self-translation-contemporary-spain

CFP: Epistemic Dissidences in the Jewish Literature of the Spanish Civil War

Self-translation is among the possible topics for the edited book Epistemic Dissidences in the Jewish Literature of the Spanish Civil War (editor: Cynthia Gabbay).

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) had an incommensurable impact on world literature (J. Pérez and W. Aycock, The Spanish Civil War in Literature, 1990; N. Binns, Voluntarios con gafas. Escritores extranjeros en la guerra civil española, 2009). During the conflict, intellectuals from all over the world either volunteered to fight fascism with weapons and with their pens in the Iberian Peninsula, or responded from abroad, writing manifests, poems or fiction. Later, a related literature emerged within the Spanish exile in Mexico, Argentina, France, Russia or North America. Even now, the Spanish Civil war remains the subject of intense interest in essays or historic novels.

Jewish literature followed indeed the 7000-9000 volunteers of Jewish origins who fought, photographed or provided medical care in Spain (G. Zaagsma, Jewish Volunteers, The International Brigades and The Spanish Civil War, 2017). This largely unexplored field of research has recently become the focus of initiatives in translation (A. Glaser and D. Weintraub (Eds.), Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets, 2005) and research (C.Gabbay, “Identidad, género y prácticas anarquistas en las memorias de Micaela Feldman y Etchebéhère”, 2016; E. Robins Sharpe, Mosaic Fictions, 2020), that introduce renewed readings of literary and cultural perspectives of the “Jewish century,” as depicted by Yuri Slezkine (2004). The unresolved question as to what should be defined as ‘Jewish literature’, and specifically, ‘Jewish literature of the Spanish Civil war’, has certainly impeded attention to this phenomenon because of the complexity of defining Jewish secular culture. However, the importance that this event – the preamble to World War II and the Shoah – had for the Jewish people, indicates the necessity for new research in the field of Jewish studies.

Diverse criticism has explored the literary Jewish question beyond explicitly Jewish topics, proposing to include in its definition a broad spectrum of characteristics related to structure (S. Sosnowski, La orilla inminente. Escritores judíos argentinos, 1987), imaginaries (D. Lockhart, Jewish Writers of Latin America–A Dictionary, 1997; C. Gabbay in (Ed.) Pilar Molina Taracena, Poesía de la guerra civil española: una perspectiva comparatista, 2019), language (C. Gabbay, in (Eds.) Michaela Wolf, et. al., ¿Pasarán? Kommunikation im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg. Interacting in the Spanish Civil War, 2020), and semiotics (B. Harshav in (Ed.) H. Wirth-Nesher, 1994), while wisely rejecting essentialism. Indeed, Jewish literature cannot be defined simply by the author’s ethnic origins (H. Wirth-Nesher (Ed.), What is Jewish Literature?, 1994). This implies that any text in which an  intersection  of ‘Jewish modes’ is manifested (see list below) could be identified as “Jewish literature”, despite the identity of its author. In particular, this volume will focus on epistemic dissidences – subtle or concealed forms of disobedience, writing against the grain of canonic literature and therefore producers of dissident knowledge – manifested through language, structure, sound and thought, nevertheless seeking to align these with the anti-fascist fight in the Spanish war. Furthermore, it proposes to examine how these epistemic dissidences were translated into internationalist linguistic codes and how they impacted on epistemic and aesthetic dimensions of world literature. The editor seeks contributions to a non-restrictive definition of ‘Jewish literature’. Taking into account that Jewish secular texts can be written within ‘soft’ frames of social and cultural coercion, negation, antisemitism and (neo-)liberalism – understood as forms of cultural homogenization – Jewishness is conceived as manifesting in translated forms or as favoring migrations of aesthetics or ideas into cosmopolitan or world literature. These elements may have eventually produced what we propose to call a poetics of frayed Jewishness.

This call thus invites researchers and writers to send proposals for unpublished papers devoted to the study of Jewish literature of the Spanish Civil War originally written in Spanish, French, German, Russian, Arabic, English, Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, or any other language. Papers will be accepted in English only. However, the edited volume encourages quotations in the original languages, as well as the integration of translations into English.

Papers can be devoted to Spanish Civil War literature by authors like Max Aub, Rubén Sinay, Charles Yale Harrison, Anna Seghers, Yaankev Glantz, Peretz Markish, Eduardo Samuel Calamaro, Agnyia Barto, Aaron Kurz, Margarita Nelken, César Tiempo, Ilya Ehrenburg, Bernardo Kordon, Clara Goldschmidt, Micaela Feldman, Ted Allan, Máximo José Kahn, Lan Adomián, Hanan Ayalti, José Grunfeld, Ephraim Rachman, Graciela Mochkofsy, and many others.

 The edited volume proposes to frame Jewish literature of the Spanish civil war, through a consideration of literary texts (fiction, poetry, drama, autofiction, memories, collages) which problematize definitions of “secular Jewish literature” and which relate to the intersection of at least three of the following elements:

• Polyglossia and diglossia
• Cosmopolitan Imaginaries
• A focus on Ethics
• Converse identities, covered identities or undefinable identities
• Topics on exile and migration
• Jewish imaginaries/Jewish semantic fields
• Messianic ethos
• Epistemic disobedience
• Humour and Irony
• Focus on memory and oblivion
• Mythic or archetypic dimensions
• Talmudic-like dialogs and constructions
• Experiences of translation and self-translation
• Jewish metaphysics
• Intertextuality with Jewish texts
• Anti-Catholicism
• Melancholy
• Matriarchal representations or perspectives/Anti-patriarchic discourses
• Jewish poetic rhythms
• Jewish literary structures/Interrogative sequences
• Jewish topics, liturgy
• Horizontalism

Please send your proposals by January 6, 2020 to cyngabbay@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Papers due: September 15, 2020.

Source: https://networks.h-net.org/node/28655/discussions/5452557/cfp-epistemic-dissidences-jewish-literature-spanish-civil-war