Introduction. Translating Feminism: Transfer, Transgression, Transformation (1950s–1980s)

Bracke, Maud Anne; Morris, Philip; Ryder, Emily

doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12358

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“…In fact, the very willingness to uproot, displace and transform are integral to any feminist enquiry. According to Bracke et al (2018), ‘the process of destabilising one’s own cultural norms, and the words within which they are couched, and the imagining of other ones, form part of feminist experiences of self-transformation, and of wider sociocultural transformation’ (p. 217; see also De Lima Costa and Alvarez, 2014).…”

Section: Theories As Propertymentioning

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Who owns intersectionality? Some reflections on feminist debates on how theories travel

Davis

2019

European Journal of Women's Studies

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Feminist scholars have increasingly expressed their worries about the depoliticization of intersectionality since it has travelled from its point of origin in US Black feminist theory to the shores of Europe. They have argued that the subject for which the theory was intended has been displaced, that Black feminists have been excluded from the discussion, and that white European feminists have usurped all the credit for intersectionality as theory. Intersectionality has been transformed into a product of the neoliberal academy rather than the helpmeet for social justice it was meant to be. This article explores three of the bones of contention in these debates about intersectionality and its travels. The author argues that they rest on notions of ownership that, while understandable, are untenable and, ultimately, counterproductive. A case will be made for taking a less proprietary stance toward critical theories and instead treating the travels of intersectionality as an occasion for dialogue rather than a contest over ownership.

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Section: Theories As Propertymentioning

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Who owns intersectionality? Some reflections on feminist debates on how theories travel

Davis

2019

European Journal of Women's Studies

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“…To translate such texts into a socialist context -albeit a more open one than other Eastern European socialist regimes -meant that Yugoslav activists had to engage in a broader cultural and political project of 'resignification', 'appropriation' and 'locally meaningful re-contextualisation', to use the words of Bracke, Morris and Ryder in their introduction to this forum. 8 It is not by chance that the first international feminist conference held in Belgrade in October 1978 was titled 'Comrade Woman. The Woman Question.…”

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Feminist Translations in a Socialist Context: The Case of Yugoslavia

Bonfiglioli¹

2018

Gender & History

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“…Feminist translators tend to "womanhandle" the text, replacing the modest, selfeffacing translator and becoming active participants in the creation of meaning (Godard, 1989); feminist translation is therefore a deliberate re-signification or "faithless translation" that makes the text operate in a new and different way (Bracke et al, 2018).…”

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Agencies in English Translations of Contemporary Chinese Women Writers: A Contextual, Paratextual and Textual Study

Jiang¹

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<p>The concept of agency has been frequently applied in translation studies (TS), especially in sociology of translation, but is still ill-defined, with no agreement on what it is precisely. This research discusses agency within a combined sociological and gendered framework, seeking to offer a systematic investigation of what agency entails in TS in order to better understand the intercultural communication of female voices from a non-hegemonic culture. In doing so, it questions a simplified understanding of agency as intermediary and argues that agency, as a theoretical tool with sociological implications, is always structural, relational and dynamic. Drawing upon ideas from Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, I first construct a field of translating contemporary Chinese women writers into English from the 1980s to the 2010s, outline the general structure that governs such translation activities and provide a diachronic analysis of how translation agents operate within different translation discourses to promote women writers. Then I refer to Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory to identify two specific agencies: 1) a feminist agency that promotes the works of Zhang Jie (1937-) in the 1980s, when there was a juxtaposition of political and feminist translation discourses; and 2) a commercial agency enacted by the male director Zhang Yimou’s film adaptation The Flowers of War (2011) operating on the translation of Yan Geling’s Thirteen Hairpins of Nanjing (Jinling shisan chai 金陵十三钗), first published in 2005. In these two case studies, I trace two translation networks and investigate how their different agencies have either strengthened or weakened the female voices inscribed in the original texts. While contextualizing how agents operate in the translation process, I examine their agency through both paratextual and textual analysis, ultimately providing what I believe is a more comprehensive understanding of agency which can enhance the analytical and explanatory power of this theoretical concept in TS. The original contribution of this research to the academic discourse is three-fold. Theoretically and methodologically, it constructs an integrative framework that combines not only sociological approaches of TS, but also feminist translation studies and feminist translation criticism. Not only does it provide a field-oriented study of how women’s writing is translated and presented through different agencies, but it also uncovers strengthened feminist voices and recovers lost female voices in different translation discourses. Moreover, as a response to the ongoing intersectional and transnational turn in the study of women and translation, it goes beyond the gender-centric framework of the traditional feminist translation studies. By exploring other social and cultural specificities for Chinese women writers who enter the Anglo- American context, this research highlights the influences of political and commercial translation discourses, exposing the dilemma of translating women writers from non-hegemonic languages into English, whereby the translator or the writer either emphasizes a woman-centric perspective in the paratext or deletes references to women’s concerns in order to improve readability for a Western readership. Last but not least, this research fills a gap in existing scholarship on translating women writers into English, or what is called “the outward translation studies” currently prevalent in the Chinese academia, yielding insights into the global circulation and reception of contemporary Chinese literature.</p>

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Introduction. Translating Feminism: Transfer, Transgression, Transformation (1950s–1980s)

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

Who owns intersectionality? Some reflections on feminist debates on how theories travel

Who owns intersectionality? Some reflections on feminist debates on how theories travel

Feminist Translations in a Socialist Context: The Case of Yugoslavia

Agencies in English Translations of Contemporary Chinese Women Writers: A Contextual, Paratextual and Textual Study

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