{"title":"Material translation","authors":"Mette Biil Sørensen","doi":"10.1111/oli.12343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/oli.12343","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes the term material translation as a concept to encompass the transfer of a book’s materiality in translation processes and its influence on meaning-making in translated editions. Even though the importance of the materiality of literary works has been generally acknowledged, it continually plays a diminutive role in the field of literary Translation Studies, as well as in the practical handling of translation processes as performed by translators and publishing houses. The transfer of form and materiality, so the article argues, becomes especially significant when it comes to photo-texts in which interactions between words, pictures, and layout impact strongly on meaning-making processes. By comparing book spreads from German, English/American and Danish editions of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005) and Austerlitz (2001), the article shows how variations in materiality and formal composition influence possible interpretations in different languages. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with experts related to the analysed works, the article discusses the causes of variations in materiality, ranging from practical decisions to varying conceptions of what exactly constitutes the object","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46204318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ORBIS LITTERARUMPub Date : 2022-04-01Epub Date: 2021-09-03DOI: 10.1111/oli.12321
Marijana Mikić
{"title":"Arab American women and the generational cycle of shame: A cognitive reading of Etaf Rum's <i>A Woman Is No Man</i>.","authors":"Marijana Mikić","doi":"10.1111/oli.12321","DOIUrl":"10.1111/oli.12321","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The essay uses a cognitive narratological approach to analyze how Etaf Rum's <i>A Woman Is No Man</i> (2019) negotiates Arab American patriarchal culture through the lens of shame. By narrating the emotional experiences of Arab American women who bear the pain of shame while they also engage in shaming others, Rum gives readers the opportunity to understand better the complex relationship between the psychology of shame and the \"shame of gender\" in patriarchal Arab American culture. Not only does <i>A Woman Is No Man</i> articulate the lived experiences of one of the most \"forgotten\" and silenced ethnic groups within American literature and culture, it also draws attention to how gender-based shaming is shaped by, and contributes to shaping, a culture of patriarchy and male power. The novel uncovers the different ways in which shame impacts the minds and bodies of Arab American women across three generations, while also laying bare the psychological, gendered, and socio-culturally embedded aspects that shape the elicitation, experience, expression, and regulation of shame.</p>","PeriodicalId":42582,"journal":{"name":"ORBIS LITTERARUM","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9336525/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40576467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}