Elena Castellano-Ortolà

Agencies in Feminist Translator Studies

Barbara Godard and the Crossroads of Literature in Canada

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Produktbeschreibung

This book draws on the legacy of Canadian scholar Barbara Godard and her work in establishing the Canadian literary landscape as a means of exploring agency in feminist translation studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 309g
• ISBN-13: 9781032523873
• ISBN-10: 1032523875
• Artikelnr.: 74981439

Autorenporträt

Elena Castellano-Ortolà is an associate lecturer in the Department of English and German Studies at the Universitat de València. A former postdoctoral fellow, she also collaborates regularly with the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Part 1: Cross-Disciplinary Feminisms: Towards Feminist Translator Studies
1. Introduction. Feminisms, disciplinary politics, and translation: Defying
knowledge
1.1 A Feminist stance on the (re-)production of knowledge
1.2. Feminisms, disciplinary politics and translation
1.3. A feminist, agency-driven view on translation (history)
2. Feminist Translator Studies: A Cross-Disciplinary Hub
2.1. Feminist Translator Studies: Agency, discursiveness
2.2. Towards Feminist Translator Studies
2.3. Critical Discourse Methodologies for Feminist Translator History:
Feminist Translation as a Form of FCDA
3. Telling the narrator's tale: The legacy of Barbara Godard's agency
3.1. The narrator
3.2. The tale
Part 2: A Feminist Translator's Portrait: Barbara Godard's agency at the
crossroads of literature in Canada
4. Arrival at York University: In the chinks of the Canada Council machine
4.1. Establishment? A point of departure
4.2. "English-Canada's New Wild West": Québec's Rebellious Literary Search
for Identity
4.3. Intercultural Canada? The Literary Translators Association (LTAC)
4.4. Stagnation?
4.5. Arrival at York University: The Canada Council Years
4.6. Godard's Tale of Don L'Orignal (1978): Channeling Maillet's Roman
Acadien
5. Breaking into academia: The golden age of Canadian-feminist translation
5.1. "Roman national or récit féminin?": The reception of a literary
(Feminist) Québécois Identity
5.2. Feminist Criticism as the first truly transnational Canadian dialogue
5.3. The Golden Age of Canadian-Feminist Translators
5.4. L'amèr (1977) and These Our Mothers (1984): Godard's First
Approximation to Brossard's Fiction Theory
6. Passing on The Mission: New Questionings
6.1. Self-Criticism: The emergence of Canadian (Literary) Translation
Studies
6.2. Collaboration, Polyphony: Translation becomes self-conscious feminist
activism
6.3. Loose ends
6.4. Overture: The Last Academic Voices of Canadian-Feminist Translation
6.5. "Je déparle yes I unspeak": A collaborative translation of Lola Lemire
Tostevin's bilingual feminist poetry (1989)
Part 3: Future directions
7. Feminisms, Nation, Translation: Barbara Godard's Periplum and the fate
of Canadian Feminist Translation Studies
7.1. Decline of the Canadian dream
7.2. Divergence in the CanLit ranks: (Im-)Possibilities of the Woman/Nation
Binomial
8. Un-Charting The future of the dialogue between translators and feminisms
8.1. Prospects: Disciplinary politics and (Translative) Feminisms
Index

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Contents

Part 1: Cross-Disciplinary Feminisms: Towards Feminist Translator Studies

1. Introduction. Feminisms, disciplinary politics, and translation: Defying knowledge

1.1 A Feminist stance on the (re-)production of knowledge

1.2. Feminisms, disciplinary politics and translation

1.3. A feminist, agency-driven view on translation (history)

2. Feminist Translator Studies: A Cross-Disciplinary Hub

2.1. Feminist Translator Studies: Agency, discursiveness

2.2. Towards Feminist Translator Studies

2.3. Critical Discourse Methodologies for Feminist Translator History: Feminist Translation as a Form of FCDA

3. Telling the narrator's tale: The legacy of Barbara Godard's agency

3.1. The narrator

3.2. The tale

Part 2: A Feminist Translator's Portrait: Barbara Godard's agency at the crossroads of literature in Canada

4. Arrival at York University: In the chinks of the Canada Council machine

4.1. Establishment? A point of departure

4.2. "English-Canada's New Wild West": Québec's Rebellious Literary Search for Identity

4.3. Intercultural Canada? The Literary Translators Association (LTAC)

4.4. Stagnation?

4.5. Arrival at York University: The Canada Council Years

4.6. Godard's Tale of Don L'Orignal (1978): Channeling Maillet's Roman Acadien

5. Breaking into academia: The golden age of Canadian-feminist translation

5.1. "Roman national or récit féminin?": The reception of a literary (Feminist) Québécois Identity

5.2. Feminist Criticism as the first truly transnational Canadian dialogue

5.3. The Golden Age of Canadian-Feminist Translators

5.4. L'amèr (1977) and These Our Mothers (1984): Godard's First Approximation to Brossard's Fiction Theory

6. Passing on The Mission: New Questionings

6.1. Self-Criticism: The emergence of Canadian (Literary) Translation Studies

6.2. Collaboration, Polyphony: Translation becomes self-conscious feminist activism

6.3. Loose ends

6.4. Overture: The Last Academic Voices of Canadian-Feminist Translation

6.5. "Je déparle yes I unspeak": A collaborative translation of Lola Lemire Tostevin's bilingual feminist poetry (1989)

Part 3: Future directions

7. Feminisms, Nation, Translation: Barbara Godard's Periplum and the fate of Canadian Feminist Translation Studies

7.1. Decline of the Canadian dream

7.2. Divergence in the CanLit ranks: (Im-)Possibilities of the Woman/Nation Binomial

8. Un-Charting The future of the dialogue between translators and feminisms

8.1. Prospects: Disciplinary politics and (Translative) Feminisms

Index