
Translation (Theory) as an Assemblage
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An assemblage is not simply the kind of postmodern form of allegory or analogy where what points beyond itself to "reality" is not a fictional story or image but what Kenneth Burke called "perspectives by incongruity." Rather, whatever "pointing" an assemblage does is radically local and shifting, or what Deleuze and Guattari call rhizomatic. A rhizomatic assemblage (dis)organizes people, events, and the planes on which they occur, and the speeds at which they occur, through a nonlinear network that is constantly in motion.
Robinson reads Franz Kafka (and other authors) and their translations in kaleidoscopic snippets that work as temporary mappings rather than stable calques-tiny fleeting ways or moments of looking at or feeling one's way into or otherwise experiencing translingual address. That orientation makes this book experimental, and the types of translation (theory) that Robinson explores in it experimental as well.
It will be of interest to graduate students and professors of translation and comparative world literature, those interested in modernist, experimental or avant-garde fiction, and those who also do literary and scholarly translation.
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Acknowledgments
First Plateau. Uprooting Schleiermacher's Crabgrass
Second Plateau. The Wish (Not) to be an Interpreter: The Wasp and the Orchid
Third Plateau. The Silence of the Crabgrass
Fourth Plateau. The Shamanic Translator as Constellator
Fifth Plateau. Ants in the House and the Forming of Norms
Sixth Plateau. The Leopards (and the Wasps) of Translation
Seventh Plateau. Collections: Indirect Translations as Babelian Assemblages
Conclusion. Tough Row to Hoe
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