Translation and translation studies in the Japanese context. (©2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Nana Sato-Rossberg and Judy Wakabayashi.
• Editors: Sato-Rossberg, Nana; Wakabayashi, Judy
• Contents: The emergence of translation studies as a discipline in Japan / Kayoko Takeda -- Situating translation studies in Japan within a broader context / Judy Wakabayashi -- A Nagasaki translator of Chinese and the making of a new literary genre / Emiko Okayama -- Assimilation or resistance? Yukichi Fukuzawa's digestive translation of the West / Akiko Uchiyama -- Stylistic norms in the Early Meiji period: from Chinese influences to European influences / Akira Mizuno -- On the creative function of translation in modern and postwar Japan: Hemingway, Proust, and modern Japanese novels / Ken Inoue -- Translating place-names in a colonial context: two dictionaries of Ainu toponymy / Nana Sato-Rossberg -- Japanese in shifting contexts: translating Canadian Nikkei writers into Japanese / Beverley Curran -- Pretranslation in modern Japanese literature and what it tells us about "World Literature" / Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit -- Transcreating Japanese video games: exploring a future direction for translation studies in Japan / Minako O'Hagan -- Community interpreting in Japan: present state and challenges / Makiko Mizuno.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages)
• Subjects: 418/.020952; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Translating & Interpreting; Translating and interpreting -- Japan; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Translating & Interpreting; Translating and interpreting; Translation & interpretation; Japan; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441114594; 1441114599; 9781441118851; 1441118853; 9781283735858; 1283735857
• Related ISBNs: 9781441139825; 1441139826; 1441118853
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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