Translation Sites A Field Guide New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies Series

In Translation Sites, leading theorist Sherry Simon shows how the processes and effects of translation pervade contemporary life. This field guide is an invitation to explore hotels, markets, museums, checkpoints, gardens, bridges, towers and streets as sites of translation. These are spaces whose meanings are shaped by language traffic and by a clash of memories.

Touching on a host of issues from migration to the future of Indigenous cultures, from the politics of architecture to contemporary metrolingualism, Translation Sites powerfully illuminates questions of public interest. Abundantly illustrated, the guidebook creates new connections between translation studies and memory studies, urban geography, architecture and history. This ground-breaking book is both an engaging read for a wide-ranging audience and an important text in broadening the scope of translation studies.

List of Figures

Introduction

I. ARCHITECTURES OF MEMORY

1. THE MONUMENT

2. THE OPERA HOUSE

3. THE CHURCH

II. TRANSIT

4. THE HOTEL

5. THE MOUNTAINTOP

6. THE TOWER

7. THE BRIDGE

8. THE WAR HOTEL

III. CROSSROADS

9. THE MARKET

10. THE STREET

11. THE MUSEUM

IV. THRESHOLDS

12. THE TRANSLATOR’S STUDY

13. THE LIBRARY

14. THE GARDEN

15. THE PSYCHOANALYST’S COUCH

V. BORDERS, CONTROL, SURVEILLANCE

16. NO MAN’S LAND

17. THE CHECKPOINT

18. THE EDGE OF EMPIRE

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Image credits

Index

Sherry Simon is a professor in the French Department at Concordia University. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Academie des lettres du Québec.