Agents of Translation

Agents of Translation contains thirteen case studies by internationally recognized scholars in which translation has been used as a way of influencing the target culture and furthering literary, political and personal interests.
The articles describe Francisco Miranda, the “precursor” of Venezuelan independence, who promoted translations of works on the French Revolution and American independence; 19th century Brazilian translations of articles taken from the Rйvue Britannique about England; Ahmed Midhat, a late 19th century Turkish journalist who widely translated from Western languages; Henry Vizetelly , who (unsuccessfully) attempted to introduce the works of Zola to a wider public in Victorian Britain; and Henry Bohn, who, also in Victorian Britain, (successfully) published a series of works from the classics, many of which were expurgated; Yukichi Fukuzawa, whose adaptation of a North American geography textbook in the Meiji period promoted the concept of the superiority of the Japanese over their Asian neighbours; Samuli Suomalainen and Juhani Konkka, whose translations helped establish Finnish as a literary language; Hasan Alо Yьcel, the Turkish Minister of Education, who set up the Turkish Translation Bureau in 1939; the Senegalese intellectual, Cheikh Anta Diop, whose work showed that the Ancient Egyptians had African rather than Indo-European roots; the Centro Cultural de Йvora theatre group, which introduced Brecht and other contemporary drama into Portugal after the 1974 Carnation Revolution; 20^th century Argentine translators of poetry; Haroldo and Augusto de Campos, who have brought translation to the forefront of literary activity in Brazil; and, finally, translators of Bosnian poetry, many of whom work in exile.

Table of contents

 

Introduction: Agents of translation and Translation Studies John Milton and Paul Bandia	1–18
Francisco de Miranda, intercultural forerunner Georges L. Bastin	19–42
Translating cultural paradigms: The role of the Revue Britannique for the first Brazilian fiction writers Maria Eulбlia Ramicelli	43–61
Translation as representation: Fukuzawa Yukichi's representation of the "Others" Akiko Uchiyama	63–83
Vizetelly & Company as (ex)change agent: Towards the modernization of the British publishing industry Denise Merkle	85–105
Translation within the margin: The "Libraries" of Henry Bohn Carol O'Sullivan	107–129
Translating Europe: The case of Ahmed Midhat as an Ottoman agent of translation Cemal Demircioğlu	131–159
A cultural agent against the forces of culture: Hasan-Вli Yьcel Şehnaz Tahir Gьrзaglar	161–188
Limits of freedom: Agency, choice and constraints in the work of the translator Outi Paloposki	189–208
Cheikh Anta Diop: Translation at the service of history Paul Bandia	209–227
The agency of the poets and the impact of their translations: Sur, Poesнa Buenos Aires, and Diario de Poesнa as aesthetic arenas for twentieth-century Argentine letters Lisa Rose Bradford	229–256
The role of Haroldo and Augusto de Campos in bringing translation to the fore of literary activity in Brazil Thelma Mйdici Nуbrega and John Milton	257–277
The theatre translator as a cultural agent: A case study Christine Zurbach	279–299
Embassy networks: Translating post-war Bosnian poetry into English Francis R. Jones	301–325
Notes on contributors	327–329
Index	331–337