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Witness between languages, the translation of Holocaust testimonies in context, Peter Davies

Label
Witness between languages, the translation of Holocaust testimonies in context, Peter Davies
Language
eng
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Witness between languages
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
1028552445
Responsibility statement
Peter Davies
Series statement
Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Sub title
the translation of Holocaust testimonies in context
Summary
Shows how making translation and its effects visible contributes to a clearer understanding of how knowledge about the Holocaust has been and continues to be created and mediated
Table Of Contents
Translation and the witness text -- Making translation visible -- Elie Wiesel's night: Searching for the original -- Translation, the Cold War, and repressed memory: Vasily Grossman's The Hell of Treblinka and Anatoli Kuznetsov's Babii Yar -- Self-Translation and the language of the perpetrators: Krystyna zywulska's Auschwitz testimony -- Filip Muller's Sonderkommando testimonies: Witnessing in translation
Content
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