Translation and Geography: Negotiation and Transmediation of Western Spatial Imaginations

Translation and Geography investigates how translation has radically shaped the way the West has mapped the world.Groundbreaking in its approach and relevant across a range of disciplines from translation studies and comparative literature to geography and history, this book makes a compelling case for a form of cultural translation that reframes the contributions of language-based translation analysis.Focusing on the different yet intertwined translation processes involved in the development of the Western spatial imaginary, Federico Italiano examines a series of literary works and their translations across languages, media, and epochs, encompassing: poems travel narratives nautical fictions colonial discourse exilic visions. Drawing on case studies and readings ranging from the Latin of the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Latin American poetry, this is key reading for translation theory and comparative/world literature courses. Groundbreaking in its approach and relevant across a range of disciplines from translation studies and comparative literature to geography and history, this book makes a compelling case for a form of cultural translation that reframes the contributions of language-based translation analysis. Focusing on the different yet intertwined translation processes involved in the development of the Western spatial imaginary, Federico Italiano examines a series of literary works and their translations across languages, media, and epochs, encompassing: poems, travel narratives, nautical fictions, colonial discourse, exilic visions. Drawing on case studies and readings ranging from the Latin of the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Latin American poetry, this is key reading for translation theory and comparative/world literature courses. -- From publisher's website Translation and Geography" investigates Western spatial imaginations, in particular those constructed by literary works, and their translations across languages, media and epochs. Ground-breaking in its approach and relevant across a range of disciplines from geography and history to comparative literature and translation studies, this book makes a compelling case for a form of cultural translation that reframes the contributions of language-based translation analysis. Drawing on case studies and readings ranging from the Latin of the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Latin American poetry, this is key reading for translation theory and comparative/world literature courses Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Orientation: an introduction 1 “Navegar ver ponente”: the Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis and its Venetian translation 2 Translating the map: carticity and transmediation in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso 3 Translating the territory: Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios 4 The fiction of translation: Abbé Prévost’s nautical writing 5 Translating the sea: Jules Verne, Nemo, and nineteenth-century oceanography 6 Translational mimesis: Tabucchi, the Azores, and cartographic writing 7 The redress of (self-)translation: Juan Gelman’s Dibaxu and the cartography of Sepharad Notes Bibliography Index