Table Of Content“As a tribute to the thought of Rosemary Arrojo on translation, this
anthology dispenses with the laudatory gesture. [...] The reader will
find in texts that cross several fields new critical and theoretical reflec-
tion, inspired from the original interweaving of language, fiction, the-
ory and translation developed by the Brazilian scholar.”
Susana Kampff Lages, Professor of German Language and
Literature, Universidade Federal Fluminense,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Transfiction and Bordering Approaches to Theorizing Translation
asks all the right impertinent questions—this volume is essential, anti-
essential, reading [...] like Arrojo’s own work which built the house for
the noisy ghosts of translation looming in these pages, this text serves
as rightful homage and epistemic challenge.”
Richard Kelly Washbourne, Professor of Spanish
Translation, Kent State University, USA
“In this enlightening volume, 15 emerging and established scholars
travel through Rosemary Arrojo’s central research fields and dialogue
with her under a transdisciplinary perspective. Covering a wide range
of genres and media, the contributions expand and renegotiate some
of Arrojo’s pivotal thoughts, suggesting new paths in Translation
Studies research.”
Michaela Wolf, Professor of Translation Studies,
Universität Graz, Austria
Transfiction and Bordering Approaches
to Theorizing Translation
This collection seeks to expand the centers from which scholars theorize
translation, building on themes in Rosemary Arrojo’s pioneering work on
transfiction and the influence of bordering disciplines in investigating and
elucidating questions central to the field of translation studies.
Chapters by scholars around the world theorize translation from
diverse perspectives, drawing on a wide range of literatures, genres, and
media, including fiction, philosophy, drama, and film. Half the chapters
explore the influence of Rosemary Arrojo’s work on transfiction and the
ways in which fictional representations of translators and translation can
shed new light on theoretical concerns. The other chapters look to fields
outside translation studies, such as linguistics, media studies, and philos-
ophy, to demonstrate the ways in which the key thinkers and theories
that have influenced Arrojo’s work can be seen in other disciplines and in
turn, encourage further cross-d isciplinary research interrogating key
questions in the field.
The collection makes the case for a multi-l ayered approach to theoriz-
ing translation, one which accounts for the rich possibilities in revisiting
existing work and thinking outside disciplinary boundaries in order to
advance the field. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in
translation studies and comparative literature.
D. M. Spitzer is an independent scholar and translator of early Greek
thinking (USA). Author of A Heaven Wrought of Iron: Poems from the
Odyssey (2016) and editor of Philosophy’s Treason: Studies in Philosophy
and Translation (2020), Spitzer’s work has appeared in journals such as
Epoché, Research in Phenomenology, and Diacritics. Currently Dr.
Spitzer is organizing Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy in Honor of
Professor Anthony Preus (Routledge) and writing a book exploring the
ways trauma and migration shaped early Greek philosophy.
Paulo Oliveira teaches German at the State University of Campinas, and
Translation Theory and Foreign Language Didactics at the University of
São Paulo (Brazil). Prior and parallel to teaching, he has also gained
extensive experience in translating and especially interpreting, mostly in
the Humanities. His research includes digital technologies and an inter-
face with semiotics. He currently works on an ‘Epistemology of translat-
ing’ of Wittgensteinian extraction and co-e dits the Nachlass of Arley
Moreno in Philosophy of Language.
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Transfiction and Bordering
Approaches to Theorizing
Translation
Essays in Dialogue with the Work of
Rosemary Arrojo
Edited by D. M. Spitzer and
Paulo Oliveira
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1975- editor.
Title: Transfiction and bordering approaches to theorizing translation :
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Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. | Series: Routledge advances
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Identifiers: LCCN 2022006771 | ISBN 9781032211404 (hbk) | ISBN
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Subjects: LCSH: Arrojo, Rosemary. Fictional translators. | Translating and
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criticism. | Fiction--20th century--History and criticism. | Translating
and interpreting. | LCGFT: Essays.
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For Rosemary: scholar, teacher, colleague, friend
Contents
List of Contributors xi
Introduction: Bordering Approaches & Trans- Bordering
Themes in Dialogue with the Work of Rosemary Arrojo 1
D. M. SPITZER
Rosemary Arrojo Career Bibliography 18
1 The Centrality of the Margins: The Translator’s Footnote as
Parergon 25
KLAUS KAINDL
2 Between Omnipotence and Humility: Scliar’s Fictional
Translator and Borges’ Pierre Menard 41
ALICE LEAL
3 The Representation of the Translator in Chico Buarque de
Holanda’s Essa gente: Impertinent Letter, Irony, and
Co- authorship 54
LEILA CRISTINA DE MELO DARIN
4 The Sequestered Home: Translation and Counter-
Families in Jane Eyre 67
MICHELLE WOODS
5 Detours of Babel 79
D. M. SPITZER
