Cities in Translation

Intersections of Language and Memory

Sherry Simon

Published 29th September 2011

204 pages

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415471527/

Series: New Perspectives in Translation Studies

The debut title in the New Perspectives in Translation Studies series, Cities in Translation is both an engaging read for a wide-ranging audience and an important text in advancing theory and methodology in translation studies.

All cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance. These are cities where more than one historically rooted language community lays claim to the territory of the city. Illustrated with photos and maps, this book focuses on four such linguistically divided cities: Calcutta, Trieste, Barcelona, and Montreal.

Though living with the ever-present threat of conflict, these cities offer the possibility of creative interaction across competing languages and this book examines the dynamics of translation in its many forms. By focusing on a category of cities which has received little attention, this study contributes to our understanding of the kinds of language relations that sustain the diversity of urban life.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction. Turning up the Volume of Translation in the City

2. Nineteenth Century Calcutta: Renaissance City

3. Habsburg Trieste: Anxiety at the Border

4. Barcelona: The Cracked Mirrors of Self-translation.

5. Montreal’s Third Space

6. Language and Memory