Translation in Anthologies and Collections (19th and 20th Centuries)

298 Pages·2013·1.96 MB·English

by  Teresa Seruya

Translation in Anthologies and Collections
(19th and 20th Centuries)
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Volume 107
Translation in Anthologies and Collections (19th and 20th Centuries)
Edited by Teresa Seruya, Lieven D’hulst, Alexandra Assis Rosa
and Maria Lin Moniz
Translation in Anthologies
and Collections
(19th and 20th Centuries)
Edited by
Teresa Seruya
University of Lisbon and CECC- Catholic University of Portugal
Lieven D’hulst
KU Leuven
Alexandra Assis Rosa
University of Lisbon and ULICES - University of Lisbon
Maria Lin Moniz
CECC- Catholic University of Portugal
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Translating and interpreting. 2. Literature--Translations. 3. Literature--Translations-
-History and criticism. 4. Literature--Translations--19th century--Criticism,
Textual. 5. Literature--Translations--20th century--Criticism, Textual.
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Table of contents
Foreword vii
introduction
Translation anthologies and collections: An overview and some prospects 1
Teresa Seruya, Lieven D’hulst, Alexandra Assis Rosa, and Maria Lin Moniz
Section I. Discursive practices and scholarly agency
Forms and functions of anthologies of translations into French
in the nineteenth century 17
Lieven D’hulst
The short story in English meets the Portuguese reader:
On the ‘external history’ of Portuguese anthologies of short stories
translated from English 35
Alexandra Assis Rosa
Cancioneiro Chinez: The first Portuguese anthology
of classical Chinese poetry 57
Marta Pacheco Pinto
Academic navel gazing? Playing the game up front?
Pages from the notebook of a translation anthologist 75
Martha P. Y. Cheung
Las antologías sobre la traducción en la Península Ibérica: Revisión crítica 89
José Antonio Sabio Pinilla
Section II. National and international canonization processes
Poetry anthologies as Weltliteratur projects 107
Ana Maria Bernardo
Publishing translated literature in late 19th century Portugal:
The case of David Corazzi’s catalogue (1906) 123
João Almeida Flor
vi Translation in anthologies and collections (19th and 20th centuries)
Short stories from foreign literatures
in Portugália’s series Antologias Universais 137
Vanessa Castagna
Patterns in the external history of Portuguese collections with translations
of Polish literature (1855–2009): An exploratory case study 153
Hanna Pięta
Extra-European literatures in anthology during the Estado Novo
(1933–1974) 171
Teresa Seruya
Section III. Selection and censorship
Children’s literature in translation: Treachery and double crossings?
Or: You can’t judge a book by its cover 189
Patricia Anne Odber de Baubeta
Translating German poetry into French under the Occupation:
The example of R. Lasne’s and G. Rabuse’s anthology (1943) 205
Christine Lombez
The reception of science fiction and horror story anthologies in the last
years of Francoist Spain: Censoring aliens and monsters in translation 217
Cristina Gómez Castro
Censored discourse in anthologies and collections of the Far West 229
Carmen Camus-Camus
Philosophical collections, translation and censorship:
The role of collections in the reception of modern philosophy
in 19th and 20th century Spain 247
Ibon Uribarri Zenekorta
Translation anthologies and British literature in Portugal and Hungary
between 1949 and 1974 259
Zsófia Gombár
Notes on contributors and editors 275
Name index 281
Subject index 285
Foreword
As conspicuous forms of culture planning and intercultural exchange processes,
anthologies and collections are, thus, well-known gateways for the introduction
of foreign literary and non-literary texts and subjects to a target culture and, as
such, privileged areas of research for both Translation and Reception Studies. This
volume focuses on the status of collections and anthologies as spaces for inter-
cultural encounters, forms of creative rewriting, as domestic offers of a partial
canon for a given area of a foreign culture, be it an author, nation, literary genre,
scientific domain, or other. Such a promising and seldom researched area opens
up several paths to further research both in terms of the external and internal his-
tory of translation, including case studies and theoretical proposals. This volume
organizes such different research paths into three different sections, preceded by a
general overview of the subject. The first section considers the discursive – textual,
peritextual, metatextual – features of translation anthologies and collections, as
well as recent scholarly approaches towards anthologizing practices. The second
one concentrates on the editorial policies that take part in processes of national
and international canonization and image building. The third section is devoted
to the many different forms and strategies of censorship conveyed by anthologies.
Section I: Discursive Practices and Scholarly Agency opens with an overview
and future avenues for research about translation in anthologies and collections,
the background and significance of this topic for several disciplinary areas. Lieven
D’hulst’s contribution chooses a genre perspective for the analysis of several defi-
nitions by contemporary dictionaries and encyclopaedias as well as a corpus of
French translation anthologies and collections (1810–1840). D’hulst suggests that
the concepts of collection and anthology have fulfilled a historical role as proto-
types applicable to both originals and translation and discusses several features
of their editorial and translational genericity. The introduction of the short story
in English to a Portuguese reader is analysed by Alexandra Assis Rosa based on
the analysis not only of regularities regarding the external history of short story
anthologies in Portugal but also of the role of peritextual discourse introducing
this genre. Based on Lambert and Van Gorp’s model for translation descrip-
tion, Marta Pinto focuses on the metatextual information and the macro-level
comparative analysis of the first anthology of classical Chinese poetry translated
into Portuguese, in 1890, in order to describe how this anthology was indirectly
viii Translation in anthologies and collections (19th and 20th centuries)
translated from the French edition by a Portuguese translator who could not speak
or read Chinese, but, nevertheless, managed to become a national success. Martha
Cheung’s paper discusses the manifold roles played by a contemporary transla-
tion scholar and/or postcolonial translator by focusing on their positionality and
agency as well as on the necessary negotiation of identity and representation in
a 21st-century project of anthologizing Chinese discourse on translation. This
section ends with a contribution by José Antonio Sabio Pinilla, offering a critical
review of the role played in Translation Studies by fourteen anthologies of texts
on translation theory, published in the Iberian Peninsula between 1987 and 2009.
This paper addresses multiple questions, such as historiographic positions under-
lying the choice and presentation of the texts, canons of translation theory repre-
sented by the anthologies, rivalries between different Iberian cultural systems and
the objectives of the anthology compilers.
Section II: National and International Canonization Processes opens with
a discussion by Ana Maria Bernardo about the concepts of world poetry and
about the process of national and international canonization based on a study
of Portuguese and German anthologies of world poetry, performed within the
framework of the Göttingen cultural approach. João de Almeida Flor considers
the circuit of translated (para)literatures, in the stages of production, distribu-
tion and consumption in Portugal, based on the analysis of catalogues by very
prestigious late 19th-century editors. Considering a selective corpus of short
story translation anthologies, Vanessa Castagna takes a closer look at the role
of the prestigious Portuguese editor, Portugália Editora, during the 1940s and
1950s in order to consider its influence in the formation of a literary canon.
Hanna Pięta offers a description of the translation market of Polish literature in
Portugal between 1855 and 2009, thus contributing to the overall knowledge of
cultural exchanges between two (semi)peripheral cultures/languages by means
of the analysis of publishers’ strategies and policies as evidenced by a corpus of
translated literature from Polish into Portuguese. Teresa Seruya ends this section
with an analysis of the role of Empire in the national identity disseminated during
the Estado Novo dictatorship in Portugal (1933–1974) as well as of Portuguese
Orientalism in the composition of anthologies of Indian, Chinese and Japanese
short stories, to unveil and discuss the de-historicized, universalized and stereo-
typed cultural image they create and disseminate.
Section III groups six contributions under the title Selection and censorship. The
first paper by Patricia Odber de Baubeta pays particular attention to the collec-
tion Série 15, published by a well-known publishing house in Portugal before the
1974 Revolution and aimed at young children and teenagers, in order to bring
forward concepts such as ‘crossover’ literature, ‘double-crossing’ or ‘disneyfication’,
Foreword ix
and to reflect on the minor status accorded to children and juvenile literature.
Understanding the political and ideological criteria underlying the organization
of an anthology of German poetry in France during its Occupation is Christine
Lombez’s purpose, whose paper reveals how as expected the negotiation of the
roles of occupier and occupied is a far from innocuous process. The following
two papers revolve around the concept of pseudotranslation of different genres
in Francoist Spain. Cristina Gómez Castro studies how science fiction narra-
tives and horror tales were imported from North America and introduced in
1970s Francoist Spain through translation. Despite Censorship’s tight control, as
revealed by the censors’ reports, this kind of literature achieved great success and
even encouraged Spanish writers in the production of similar pseudotranslations.
Carmen Camus explores Far West narratives also published in Franco’s Spain and
included in collections and anthologies disseminating translations of American
Westerns but also a significant number of pseudotranslations. The microtextual
analysis of one of these short stories is used to reveal that, even when the official
censorship hand was not felt, translators and publishers resorted to self-censor-
ship, pre-emptively avoiding any problems with the authorities. Ibon Uribarri
Zenekorta describes the situation in early 19th-century Spain concerning the cir-
culation of philosophical texts, fiercely controlled by censorship, and shows how
the collections of translated texts on modern secular philosophy were used to fight
the dominant Catholic ideology and its conservative values. The (dis)similarities
concerning the publishing industry in two dictatorial regimes from 1949 to 1974 –
Estado Novo in Portugal and Socialism in Hungary – are presented and discussed
by Zsófia Gombár, whose paper ends this section and offers a comparative study
of the reception of translated British literature in both countries, and discusses
their respective political and cultural agendas.
Acknowledgments
The essays in this volume originated in the International Conference Translation in 19th- and
20th-century anthologies and collections (Lisbon, 6–7 May 2010). Both research centres respon-
sible for organizing this conference – CECC (Research Centre for Communication and Culture,
Catholic University of Portugal) and ULICES-CEAUL (University of Lisbon Centre for English
Studies) –, as well as the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), deserve
our sincere thanks.
Thanks are due also to the Benjamins Translation Library series for welcoming our book
proposal in the series.
The Editors