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Examining Text and Authorship in Translation

What Remains of Christa Wolf?

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Authors:
  1. Caroline Summers

    1. University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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  • Systematically examines authorship in translation by focusing on Christa Wolf

  • Engages with growing trends in research into agents of translation and cultural transfer, looking at the process of translation on levels outside the text

  • Intervenes in wide-ranging contemporary debates on globalised literary culture by examining how the fragmented identity of the ‘international’ author is contested by different stakeholders in the construction of a world literature

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Caroline Summers
    Pages 1-21

  3. Understanding Translated Authorship

    • Caroline Summers
    Pages 23-57

  4. The Subjective Narrator: Nachdenken über Christa T.

    • Caroline Summers
    Pages 59-111

  5. The Author as Feminist: Kassandra

    • Caroline Summers
    Pages 113-160

  6. Politics, Morality and Aesthetics: Two Translations of Was bleibt

    • Caroline Summers
    Pages 161-215

  7. Conclusion: What Remains?

    • Caroline Summers
    Pages 217-228

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 229-260
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About this book

This book, the first in-depth study of authorship in translation, explores how authorial identity is ‘translated’ in the literary text.  In a detailed exploration of the writing of East German author Christa Wolf in English translation, it examines how the work of translators, publishers, readers and reviewers reframes the writer’s identity for a new reading public. This detailed study of Wolf, an author with a complex and contested public profile, intervenes in wide-ranging contemporary debates on globalised literary culture by examining how the fragmented identity of the ‘international’ author is contested by different stakeholders in the construction of a world literature. The book is interdisciplinary in its approach, representing new work in Translation Studies and German Studies that is also of interest and relevance to scholars of literature in other languages.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Caroline Summers

About the author

Caroline Summers is Lecturer in Comparative Literary Translation at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research focuses on the literary text as an object of cultural exchange and on the construction of authorial identities through literary translation, especially the status of the text as a point of intersection between the activities of different agents in the translation process.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Examining Text and Authorship in Translation

  • Book Subtitle: What Remains of Christa Wolf?

  • Authors: Caroline Summers

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40183-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40182-9Published: 06 March 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82047-7Published: 20 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40183-6Published: 23 February 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 260

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Discourse Analysis, Translation Studies, Translation, Comparative Literature, Germanic Languages

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