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Science Fiction in Translation

Perspectives on the Global Theory and Practice of Translation

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Editors:
  1. Ian Campbell

    1. Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

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  • Considers how science fiction tropes manifest across languages and cultures
  • Discusses how and to what extent science fiction translated into English misrepresents the source texts and cultures
  • Moves beyond the production of science fiction to study the theory and process behind translation

Part of the book series: Studies in Global Science Fiction (SGSF)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction: Science Fiction and Translation

    • Ian Campbell
    Pages 1-18

  3. Speculative Fiction, Translation, and Transformation

    • Rachel Cordasco
    Pages 19-31

  4. An Insufficient Process of Internationalization: Militant Translation and the Experience of Translating into English the Best-Selling Catalan (Sf) Novel Ever

    • Sara Martín
    Pages 33-53

  5. Ungendering the English Translation of the Strugatskys’ The Snail on the Slope

    • R. B. Lemberg
    Pages 55-78

  6. (Not) Translating the Incomprehensible: Defamiliarizing Science, Technology, and Science Fiction in Harry Martinson’s Aniara

    • Daniel Helsing
    Pages 79-101

  7. Imperfect Words for an Imperfect World: Language and Translation in Chroniques du Pays des Mères by Élisabeth Vonarburg

    • Tessa Sermet
    Pages 103-123

  8. Speculative Orientalism? On “Eastern” and “Western” Referents in Boualem Sansal’s 2084

    • Erin Twohig
    Pages 125-142

  9. Philip K. Dick in French: A Mutating Voice

    • Amélie Lespilette
    Pages 143-164

  10. Ponying the Slovos: A Parallel Linguistic Analysis of A Clockwork Orange in English, French, and Spanish

    • Niall Curry, Jim Clarke, Benet Vincent
    Pages 165-188

  11. Censorship or Cultural Adjustment? Sexualized Violence in Hungarian Translations of Asimov’s Second Foundation

    • Bogi Takács
    Pages 189-213

  12. Translating the Pathologized Body as a Tool of Nationalism in Chinese Science Fiction

    • Virginia L. Conn
    Pages 215-236

  13. Translating the Chinese Monster in Waste Tide

    • Yen Ooi
    Pages 237-261

  14. Ghosts, Aliens, and Machines: Epistemic Continuity and Assemblage in Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s Science Fiction

    • Suparno Banerjee
    Pages 263-282

  15. The Clockwork Chrysalis: Enslavement Poetry of Juan Francisco Manzano

    • Alexis Brooks de Vita
    Pages 283-307

  16. The Estrangement of Political Trauma in Two SF Novels by Basma Abdelaziz

    • Ian Campbell
    Pages 309-332

  17. The Translation of SF Tropes in Dog War II

    • Ikram Masmoudi
    Pages 333-351

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 353-359
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About this book

Science Fiction in Translation: Perspectives on the Global Theory and Practice of Translation focuses on the process of translation and its implications. The volume explores the translation of works of science fiction (SF) from one language to another and the translation of SF tropes, terms, and ideas of SF theory into cultures outside the West. Providing a comprehensive examination of the state of translation into English, the essays consider how representative the body of translated work of SF is from the source language/culture. It also considers the social, political, and economic choices in selecting a work to translate. The book illustrates the dramatic growth both in SF production outside the Anglosphere, the translation of works from other languages into English, and the practice of translating English-language SF into other languages. Altogether, the essays map the theory, practice, and business of SF translation around the world.

Reviews

“Campbell’s volume is an indispensable collection of new voices and media spanning from at least the 1830s to the close of the 2010s, which … provides a tangible, though far reaching, web from which to choose a new vision for SF. … In a world where the lenses of SF and conscious reality seem to blur more and more, Campbell’s volume and the authors included are a beacon of hope.” (Alice G. Fulmer, SFRA Review, Vol. 53 (4), 2023)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

    Ian Campbell

About the editor

Ian Campbell is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Georgia State University, USA.  He is the author of Labyrinths, Intellectuals and the Revolution: The Arabic-Language Moroccan Novel, 1957–72 (2013) and Arabic Science Fiction (Palgrave 2018).



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