Beyond transfiction: Translators and (their) authors
Edited by Nitsa Ben-Ari, Patricia Godbout, Klaus Kaindl and Shaul Levin
Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 11:3 (2016) v, 146 pp.
Nitsa Ben-Ari
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nitsa Ben-Ari is involved.
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2021 Chapter 8. The Translator’s Note revisited Literary Translator Studies, Kaindl, Klaus, Waltraud Kolb and Daniela Schlager (eds.), pp. 157–181 | Chapter
2019 Chapter 9. Traditions of translation in Hebrew culture A World Atlas of Translation, Gambier, Yves and Ubaldo Stecconi (eds.), pp. 193–214 | Chapter
Throughout most of the history of Jewish communities worldwide, diglossia has been the rule rather than the exception. The history of Hebrew translation is hereby told from this special angle of Hebrew’s diglossic existence, encompassing both ‘classical’, genetically related diglossia… read more
2016 Translators and (their) authors in the fictional turn Beyond transfiction: Translators and (their) authors, Ben-Ari, Nitsa, Patricia Godbout, Klaus Kaindl and Shaul Levin (eds.), pp. 339–343 | Article
2014 Political dissidents as translators, editors, and publishers The Sociological Turn in Translation and Interpreting Studies, Angelelli, Claudia V. (ed.), pp. 23–39 | Article
Against the backdrop of the British mandatory rule of Palestine (1917–1948), Socialist and Revisionist factions struggled bitterly over the character of the new Israeli culture/nation in the making. Crucial ideological differences intermingled with violent fights over topical problems such as… read more
2014 Reaching a dead-end – and then? Jacques Gélats Le Traducteur and Le Traducteur Amoureux Transfiction: Research into the realities of translation fiction, Kaindl, Klaus and Karlheinz Spitzl (eds.), pp. 113–124 | Article
2012 Political dissidents as translators, editors, and publishers The Sociological Turn in Translation and Interpreting Studies, Angelelli, Claudia V. (ed.), pp. 144–160 | Article
Against the backdrop of the British mandatory rule of Palestine (1917–1948), Socialist and Revisionist factions struggled bitterly over the character of the new Israeli culture/nation in the making. Crucial ideological differences intermingled with violent fights over topical problems such as… read more
2010 Representations of translators in popular culture Translation and Interpreting Studies 5:2, pp. 220–242 | Article
The “fictional turn” in translation studies has acknowledged the fact that translators/interpreters have been moved from behind the curtain to center stage. Whether this is a result of poststructuralist or postcolonial scholarship, the fact remains that translators/interpreters now figure as… read more
2008 Popular mass production in the periphery: Socio-political tendencies in subversive translation Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies: Investigations in homage to Gideon Toury, Pym, Anthony, Miriam Shlesinger † and Daniel Simeoni (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2006 The role and responsibility of the anonymous: The historic function of mass translations Translation and Interpreting Studies 1:2, pp. 73–89 | Article
A remarkable phenomenon in Hebrew culture of the 1950s was the emergence of a considerable quantity of translations and pseudo-translations of pulp literature. The phenomenon stemmed from the need of the literary system to renew and stratify itself, supplying the general reading public with popular… read more
2006 Past, present, and future of the art: A conversation with Gideon Toury Translation and Interpreting Studies 1:2, pp. 147–160 | Article
2002 The double conversion of Ben-Hur: A case of manipulative translation Target 14:2, pp. 263–301 | Article
Ever since the 18th century revival of Hebrew literature, translation has been considered an efficient tool for ideological manipulation. Christianity has been a traditional candidate for such manipulation. Fear and hatred of the “younger” religion may have accounted for the subversive treatment of… read more