* this tightly edited collection comprehensively covers the contribution of one of the most important figures in translation studies, Theo Hermans, and extends and advances scholarship in these key areas of history, methodology and the concept of translation as a social practice.
*the wide influence of Hermans and Baker combined with the high calibre of contributions ensures this will be an important title for both scholars, researchers and students on widely taught trends in translation studies courses.
*No other book covers such a broad range of timely, original material, methods and approaches, cohering around the work of this leading theorist.
Mona Baker is Affiliate Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education, University of Oslo, and co-coordinator of the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network. She is Director of the Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at Shanghai International Studies University, and Adjunct Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. She is author of In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation and Translation and Conflict: A Narrative Account; editor of Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution; and co-editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media.
Title: Unsettling Translation: Studies in Honour of Theo Hermans
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ISBN: 9780367681968
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-05-31
Number of Pages: 262
Weight: 0.4871 kg
This is a rich collection of interventions which speak to the most current and urgent questions in Translation Studies: from material culture to the question of agency, from ecotranslation to the role of transdisciplinary and transnational approaches in the Humanities. That contributors do all this while engaging with Theo Hermans's work is the best possible testimony to the originality of his thinking and the legacy of his scholarship.
Loredana Polezzi, Stony Brook University, USA
Theo Hermans is one of the most prominent figures in the disciplinary history of translation studies. He has been a key player in institutionalising the field but also an independent critical voice against excessive institutionalising, promoting a view of 'a splintered discipline, a de-centred and perhaps ex-centric field of study that must learn to speak several tongues, recognizes the contingency of theory and seeks to make its own uncertainties productive' (Hermans 2006:9). This collective volume edited by Mona Baker, another likeminded critical thinker, is a testament to this vision, and the many chapters by prominent TS scholars expand on Hermans's ideas and unleash productive uncertainties in ways that capture the reader's scientific imagination and create a desire to reread his entire oeuvre.
Kaisa Koskinen, Tampere University, Finland
