The Translation of Experience

Cultural Artefacts in Experiential Translation
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-61208-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Creative, Social and Transnational Perspectives on Translation

Experience is a multilayered, cumulative affair with transformation at its core. Its study, a necessary first step for its translation, requires an exploration of embodiment, the senses, and cultural and social environments.

The second of two volumes, this book explores how artefacts, as outcomes of experience brought about by the “artistranslator” perform semiotic work. This semiotic work arises through the intervention of their makers but also through their viewers/audience, often through the latter’s direct participation in the artefacts’ creation, which we see as an open-ended process. Drawing on diverse examples from across the world, the chapters explore visual materiality, the digital world and the multisensory nature of artefacts such as monuments, festivals, theatre performances, artworks, rituals, the urban environment and human bodies—the embodied perception of which may draw holistically or variously on the haptic, olfactory, auditory, kinetic or kinaesthetic senses. Throughout the book, experiential translation is framed as a political endeavour that allows experience to be shared across linguistic, cultural, generational or gendered divides in the form of artefacts that facilitate transformation and the acquisition of knowledge.

This book and its companion volume The Experience of Translation: Materiality and Play in Experiential Translation include an international range of contributions from graduate students and early career researchers (ECRs) to tenured academics in translation studies, comparative literature, performance arts, fine arts, media and cultural studies, as well as educators, artists and curators. It will be of particular interest to translators and arts practitioners, scholars and researchers in the transdisciplinary field of humanities.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vidal, Ricarda

Campbell, Madeleine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prelude. Cultural Artefacts and Experiential Translation: An Entangled Experience. Chapters Overview Section 1: Rituals and Transformation 1. Translating the Anthropocene: Ulrike Almut Sandig’s “In die Natur” and Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass as Planetary Eco-translation Practices 2. Translation for Women, Women for Translation: Experiential Translation in North India’s Sanjhi 3. Translating a Countermonument: Reflections on the translation process of a community-focus artistic project into a short-story collection Section 2: Sites and Sounds 4. The National Covid Memorial Wall as a Translation Site 5. Museum of Monologues: Contemporary theatre as a form of urban translation 6. Translating the City: Performing Translation in the Digital Era Section 3: Bodies in Time 7. Constructing the Afterlives of Objects: Experiential Translation in Contemporary Saudi Female Artworks 8. Translating Fairytales through Women's Bodies 9. Translating migration experiences: perception as the act of translation 10. Never at Sea: Translating embodied experiences of forced migration through image, object and sound.

Über Autor(innen)

Madeleine Campbell teaches at Edinburgh University. Her transdisciplinary research spans arts-informed language education, experiential translation and creativity. Publications include The Experience of Translation (2024), “The multimodal translation workshop as a method of creative inquiry – acousmatic sound, affective perception and experiential literacy” (2024) and Translating across Sensory and Linguistic Borders (2019). She is Co-Investigator of the AHRC-funded Experiential Translation Network (ETN).

Profile: https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/madeleine-campbell

Ricarda Vidal is Senior Lecturer at King’s College London and Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Experiential Translation Network (www.experientialtranslation.net). As researcher, text-maker and curator, she explores the multimodal aspects of communication across perceived cultural and/or linguistic divides. Recent publications include The Experience of Translation (2024), Translating across Sensory and Linguistic Borders (2019), Home on the Move (2019), and the bookwork series Revolve:R (2011–2023).

Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ricarda-Vidal-2