Translating the Soviet Thaw in the Estonian context: entangled perspectives on the book series<i>Loomingu Raamatukogu</i>

Monticelli, Daniele

doi:10.1080/01629778.2020.1762685

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“…The loosening of ideological pressure from the Party seemed to set cultural agents free to develop into the new leading force, ushering in a "second cultural revolution" (Buchli 1999:137). In the field of literary translation, the Thaw coincided with a boom in foreign literature (Monticelli and Lange 2014) and a mitigation of the censorship system, consequently affording editors and translators more space for negotiation (Sherry 2015;Monticelli 2020). While the renewed impulse came from the centre this time, it had a more far reaching effect on the periphery of the Soviet empire, as our analysis of the Estonian translation of Cipollino will demonstrate.…”

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Unsettling Translation

Baker¹

2022

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This collection engages with translation and interpreting from a diverse but complementary range of perspectives, in dialogue with the seminal work of Theo Hermans. A foundational figure in the field, Hermans's scholarly engagement with translation spans several key areas, including history of translation, metaphor, norms, ethics, ideology, methodology, and the critical reconceptualization of the positioning of the translator and of translation itself as a social and hermeneutic practice. Those he has mentored or inspired through his lectures and pioneering publications over the years are now household names in the field, with many represented in this volume. They come together here both to critically re-examine translation as a social, political and conceptual site of negotiation and to celebrate his contributions to the field.The volume opens with an extended introduction and personal tribute by the editor, which situates Hermans's work within the broader development of critical thinking about translation from the 1970s onward. This is followed by five parts, each addressing a theme that has been broadly taken up by Theo Hermans in his own work: translational epistemologies; historicizing translation; performing translation; centres and peripheries; and digital encounters.This is important reading for translation scholars, researchers and advanced students on courses covering key trends and theories in translation studies, and those engaging with the history of the discipline.The rather smooth, unruffled picture of translation that I have just painted has an 'other' to it, a more unsettling but also a much more interesting and intriguing side. The smooth, unruffled picture may be part of the conventional perception and self-presentation of translation, but it papers over the cracks. I want to try and poke my finger into at least some of these cracks. And the reason for doing so lies in the recognition that translation, for all its presumed secondariness, derives its force from the fact that it is still our only answer to, and our only escape from, Babel.

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