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Witness Between Languages

Witness Between Languages

The Translation of Holocaust Testimonies in Context

by Peter Davies
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/04/2018

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A growing body of scholarship is making visible the contribution of translators to the creation, preservation, and transmission of knowledge about the Holocaust. The discussion has tended to be theoretical or to concentrate on exposing the "distorted" translations of texts by important witnesses such as Anne Frank or Elie Wiesel. There is therefore a need for a positive, concrete, and contextually aware approach to the translation of Holocaust testimonies that acknowledges the achievements of translators while being sensitive to the consequences of particular translation strategies. Peter Davies's study proceeds from the assumption that translators are active co-creators whose work does not simply mediate a pre-existing text, but creates a representation of that text for a new readership in a specific context. Translators of Holocaust testimonies, then, provide a form of textual commentary that works through ideas about witnessing, historical truth, and the meaning of the Holocaust. In this way they are important co-creators of knowledge about the Holocaust and its legacy.

The study focuses on translations between English and German, and from other languages (principally French, Russian, and Polish) into English and German. It works through a number of case studies, showing how making translation and its effects visible contributes to a clearer understanding of how knowledge about the Holocaust has been and continues to be created and mediated.

Peter Davies is Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh.

ISBN:
9781640140295
9781640140295
Category:
General & world history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-04-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
238x162x21.93mm
Weight:
0.53kg
Peter Davies

Peter Davies is a research fellow in archaeology at La Trobe University whose work focuses on the social, industrial and environmental archaeology of colonial Australia.

His previous books include Henry’s Mill: The Archaeology and History of a Forest Community and An Archaeology of Australia Since 1788, with Susan Lawrence.

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