Translating Montreal : episodes in the life of a divided city / Sherry Simon.

Main entry:

Simon, Sherry.

Title & Author:

Translating Montreal : episodes in the life of a divided city / Sherry Simon.

Publication:

Description:

xvi, 280 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Moments of translation in a divided city -- The crosstown journey of the 1960s -- Diasporic translation: Klein in Mile End -- Bifurcations: Yiddish turned to French -- Paths of perversity: creative interference -- Bridge to Babel: the cosmopolitan city -- Conversations on the mountain: translating memory.

Summary:

The divided Montreal of the 1960s is very different from today's cosmopolitan, hybrid city. Taking the perspective of a walker moving through a fluid landscape of neighbourhoods and eras, Sherry Simon experiences Montreal as a voyage across languages. Sketching out literary passages from the then of the colonial city to the now of the cosmopolitan Montreal, she traces a history of crossings and intersections around the familiar sites and symbols of the city - the mythical boulevard Saint-Laurent, Mile End, the Jacques-Cartier Bridge, Mont-Royal. 'Translating Montreal' follows the trajectories of adventurous cultural translators such as Malcolm Reid, F.R. Scott, and A.M. Klein - pioneers of the 1950s and 1960s - Pierre Anctil, whose translations from Yiddish to French are emblematic of the dramatic reroutings now occurring across the Montreal landscape, and contemporary writer-translators such as Gail Scott, Erin Moure, Jacques Brault, Michel Garneau, Nicole Brossard, and Emile Ollivier. Simon argues that translation is a dynamic and subtle tool for analysing cultural contact. An original take on cultural relations in the city, 'Translating Montreal' explores the emergence of the "new" Montrealer. No longer "Franco-Quebecois," "Anglo-Quebecois," "immigrant," or "ethnic," the new Montrealer is a citizen of a mixed and cosmopolitan city.

ISBN:

0773531084 (pbk.)
9780773531086 (pbk.)
0773530770 (bound)
9780773530775 (bound)

Subject:

Translating and interpreting Québec (Province) Montréal History 20th century.
Literature Translations History and criticism.
Intercultural communication Québec (Province) Montréal History 20th century.
Intercultural communication Québec (Province) Montréal 20th century.
Traduction Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire 20e siècle.
Littérature Traductions Histoire et critique.
Communication interculturelle Québec (Province) Montréal 20e siècle.
Intercultural communication
Literature Translations
Translating and interpreting
Literatur
Sprachkontakt
Übersetzung
Translating and interpreting Quebec (Province) Montreal History 20th century.
Intercultural communication Quebec (Province) Montreal History 20th century.
Québec Montréal
Montréal

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main montreal 252999
Call No.: FC2947.394 S56 2006
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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