Feminism in Translation

This article starts from a strangely bilingual Canadian sound poem, «Simultaneous Translation» by Penn Kemp (1984) and traces the specifically Canadian aspects of the work done in the area of «translation and gender» from the 1980s to 2000. The social and political circumstances supporting the inten...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: von Flotow, Luise
Format: article
Publication Date:2006
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:5596
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/5596
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Canadian feminisms and translation
History of gender issues in translation
Feminismes canadencs i traducció
Història de temes de gènere en la traducció
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Summary:This article starts from a strangely bilingual Canadian sound poem, «Simultaneous Translation» by Penn Kemp (1984) and traces the specifically Canadian aspects of the work done in the area of «translation and gender» from the 1980s to 2000. The social and political circumstances supporting the intense focus both on gender and on translation in Canada in those decades are explored here, and are seen as the key to understanding why primarily Canadian writers and academics developed the field.