FOUND IN TRANSLATION
University of Virginia
Thirteenth Annual English Department Graduate Conference
March 26-27, 2004
Keynote Speakers:
SYLVIA MOLLOY
New York University
Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities, Spanish and
Portuguese Languages and Literatures, and Comparative
Literature and former president of the Modern Language
Association
GAURI VISWANATHAN
Columbia University
Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities and Director of
the Southern Asian Institute
What happens when a text, idea, or performance is
translated--literally "transported across"-- linguistic,
national, cultural, or formal borders? What are the
ontological and/or epistemological assumptions behind the
work of translation? What is the place of translated works
in national canons? What is the role of the translator?
Topics to consider include:
Translation--
--in the global economy, the cultural/national politics of
translation
--and mistranslation of culture and/or nation
--and postcolonial theory, translation as a form of
imperialism/colonialism
--and ekphrasis, "inter-semiotic" translation across
formal boundaries, between differing media
--and
transculturation/mestizaje/syncretism/antropofagismo/mimicry/hybridity
--and the untranslatable, the culturally/linguistically
idiosyncratic, the unnamable
--and the relation between original and copy, the primary
and the secondary, the "authentic" and the "derivative"
--and bilingual or mixed language texts
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words with
your name, e-mail, phone number, and academic affiliation
to Michael Engle, at mre6z@virginia.edu, by March 1, 2004.
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