Speaking Memory
How Translation Shapes City Life
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2016
323 pages
978-0-7735-4859-6 (ISBN)
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An innovative account of urban memory as a conversation across languages.
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12/2016
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Simon Sherry:
Sherry Simon, distinguished professor emerita at Concordia University, is the author and editor of several books including Speaking Memory: How Translation Shapes City Life.Sherry Simon is professor in the French Department at Concordia University and the author of Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City.
Sherry Simon, distinguished professor emerita at Concordia University, is the author and editor of several books including Speaking Memory: How Translation Shapes City Life.Sherry Simon is professor in the French Department at Concordia University and the author of Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE: LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY
- 1 Locating Vilnius on the Map of Translation
- 2 A Modernist City Resisting Translation? Trieste between Slovenia and Italy
- 3 (Ethni)city under Scrutiny: Or, Tell Me Which Prague You Like and I'll Tell You Which Nation You Are (Not)!
- 4 Language Edges: Reading the Habsburg Border City
- PART TWO: MOVING FAULT LINES OF THE GLOBAL CITY
- 5 Digital Dublin: Translating the Cybercity
- 6 Monolingualism and Plural Narratives: The Translation of Suffering in the Language of the City
- 7 The Exilic City
- 8 Media Networks and Language-Crossing in Montreal
- 9 Medial Translations and Human Unsettlements: Planetary Urbanisms in McLuhan and Flusser
- PART THREE: HYBRID URBAN LANGUAGES
- 10 Linguistic Zones of the French Atlantic
- 11 Antônio de Alcântara Machado's Brás, Bexiga e Barra Funda as a Translation of São Paulo during Brazilian Modernism
- 12 Artivism as a Form of Urban Translation: An Indisciplinary Hypothesis
- 13 Montreal's Third Spaces on Foot
- References
- Contributors
- Index
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