Translation Sites A Field Guide

In Translation Sites, leading theorist Sherry Simon shows how the processes and effects of translation pervade contemporary life. This field guide is an invitation to explore hotels, markets, museums, checkpoints, gardens, bridges, towers and streets as sites of translation. These are spaces whose meanings are shaped by language traffic and by a clash of memories. Touching on a host of issues from migration to the future of Indigenous cultures, from the politics of architecture to contemporary metrolingualism, Translation Sites powerfully illuminates questions of public interest. Abundantly illustrated, the guidebook creates new connections between translation studies and memory studies, urban geography, architecture and history. This ground-breaking book is both an engaging read for a wide-ranging audience and an important text in broadening the scope of translation studies.

List of Figures Introduction I. ARCHITECTURES OF MEMORY 1. THE MONUMENT 2. THE OPERA HOUSE 3. THE CHURCH II. TRANSIT 4. THE HOTEL 5. THE MOUNTAINTOP 6. THE TOWER 7. THE BRIDGE 8. THE WAR HOTEL III. CROSSROADS 9. THE MARKET 10. THE STREET 11. THE MUSEUM IV. THRESHOLDS 12. THE TRANSLATOR’S STUDY 13. THE LIBRARY 14. THE GARDEN 15. THE PSYCHOANALYST’S COUCH V. BORDERS, CONTROL, SURVEILLANCE 16. NO MAN’S LAND 17. THE CHECKPOINT 18. THE EDGE OF EMPIRE Conclusion Acknowledgements Image credits Index

Sherry Simon is a professor in the French Department at Concordia University. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Academie des lettres du Québec.