Translating Montreal
Episodes in the Life of a Divided City
Published on 10. October 2006
296 pages
978-0-7735-7702-2 (ISBN)
Description
Translating Montreal follows the trajectories of adventurous cultural translators such as Malcolm Reid, F.R. Scott, and A.M. Klein - pioneers of the 1950s and 1960s - Pierre Anctil, whose translations from Yiddish to French are emblematic of the dramatic reroutings now occurring across the Montreal landscape, and contemporary writer-translators such as Gail Scott, Erin Mouré, Jacques Brault, Michel Garneau, Nicole Brossard, and Emile Ollivier. Simon argues that translation is a dynamic and subtle tool for analysing cultural contact. An original take on cultural relations in the city, Translating Montreal explores the emergence of the "new" Montrealer. No longer "Franco-Québécois," "Anglo-Québécois," "immigrant," or "ethnic," the new Montrealer is a citizen of a mixed and cosmopolitan city.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: Moments of Translation in a Divided City
- 1 The Crosstown Journey of the 1960s
- 2 Diasporic Translation: Klein in Mile End
- 3 Bifurcations: Yiddish Turned to French
- 4 Paths of Perversity: Creative Interference
- 5 Bridge to Babel: The Cosmopolitan City
- 6 Conversations on the Mountain: Translating Memory
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
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- C
- D
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- F
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