Caterina Calafat

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Une lecture postmoderne de Murmures à Beyoğlu: une odyssée intertextuelle de Nabokov à Pamuk, de Paris à Istanbul

Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, Apr 1, 2015

Este artículo se centra en Murmures à Beyoğlu (2009), ópera prima del escritor francés David Bora... more Este artículo se centra en Murmures à Beyoğlu (2009), ópera prima del escritor francés David Boratav (París, 1971), y en el análisis de algunas de sus características básicas como novela posmoderna. Así pues, se priorizará la interpretación del protagonista y de la ciudad como la enésima relectura posmoderna de la Odisea, en el viaje iniciático de un personaje homérico à la recherche de su Ítaca perdida, Estambul. El retrato del personaje central se completa con un esbozo de la riqueza intertextual de la obra, y la visión de la capital turca se enmarca en la representación posmoderna de la ciudad, bajo un prisma complejo que la aleja del típico exotismo decimonónico. Palabras clave: literatura comparada, posmodernismo literario, intertextualidad, representación de la ciudad posmoderna.

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Je Sois Autre Moy-Mesmes: Generic Blending and French Heritage in Julian Barnes’s Levels of Life

Canadian review of comparative literature, 2016

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Introduction: The politics of translation and the translation of politics

Translation & Interpreting, Jul 16, 2020

In their introduction to the much-quoted edited collection Translation, Power, Subversion, Álvare... more In their introduction to the much-quoted edited collection Translation, Power, Subversion, Álvarez and Vidal (1996, p. 2) posit that translation is one the most representative paradigms of the clash between cultures. In their view, it is important to examine the relationship between the production of "knowledge in a given culture and its transmission, relocation and reinterpretation in the target culture". Álvarez and Vidal underscore the influence of the translator as well as the power relationship that the source and target cultures may have upon the translation practice. Although twenty-five years have passed since the publication of their book, Álvarez and Vidal's work keeps resonating in a world that has become increasingly globalized and where power can be exerted in myriad ways. For Álvarez and Vidal, translation is a political act. And, it may be added, non-translation also is. The influence of politics on translation practice can be observed in the translation of political texts but, as Gagnon claims (2010, p. 252), also in the use of translation as a political statement. The former can be exemplified by the translation of political speeches, such as that of President Donald Trump's inaugural address (discussed by Caimotto's article in this special issue); the translation of news articles, such as those rendered into English and Portuguese by El País or into Spanish and Chinese by The New York Times; and the translation of political texts, such as the works of Karl Marx and his followers that were rendered into Chinese at the beginning of twentieth century. As for translation as a political statement, it refers to the underlying policies that lead to those translations. If we peruse the Spanish versions of The New York Times, for instance, we realize that the texts are only a small fraction of what is published in the English version. The same applies to the English articles that appeared in El País. This is, of course, related to the limited resources apportioned to the translation services of these media, but the very selection of news items to be translated is also a political act. An excellent example to study the way in which ideologies influence translation practices was the simultaneous appointments of Spain's new Prime Minister and El País's new editor back in 2018. These events provide us with an excellent example of how translation can be reflective of the ideological affinity between a government and a specific news corporation (for a discussion, see Valdeón, 2020).

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Introduction: Contemporary Poetry and Affect Studies: Theoretical Approaches and Readings (Margalida Pons & Caterina Calafat)

Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, Nov 30, 2022

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Cultural translation, universality and emancipation

In a way, the history of Translation Studies, at least for the last decades, has been that of a c... more In a way, the history of Translation Studies, at least for the last decades, has been that of a continuous broadening of the field of study. If the 1990s witnessed the “cultural turn” famously heralded by Mary Snell-Hornby, more recently scholars have turned towards the role that translation plays in cultural dominance and cultural resistance, in what has been referred to as the power turn. At the same time, a converging movement could be observed from outside the field of Translation Studies: Some thinkers, in their quest for new intellectual paradigms to tackle the challenges faced by emancipatory projects, have veered towards translation as a way to overcome particularism and nationalism, while at the same time avoiding the risks of a monocultural universalism that is seen to lead inevitably to imperialism. Translation, by necessarily reaching out to the Other and creating hybridity, offers a unique chance to “square the circle” and find “equivalence in difference.” In this paper...

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Une lecture postmoderne de Murmures à Beyoğlu: une odyssée intertextuelle de Nabokov à Pamuk, de Paris à Istanbul

Çédille, 2015

Este artículo se centra en Murmures à Beyoğlu (2009), ópera prima del escritor francés David Bora... more Este artículo se centra en Murmures à Beyoğlu (2009), ópera prima del escritor francés David Boratav (París, 1971), y en el análisis de algunas de sus características básicas como novela posmoderna. Así pues, se priorizará la interpretación del protagonista y de la ciudad como la enésima relectura posmoderna de la Odisea, en el viaje iniciático de un personaje homérico à la recherche de su Ítaca perdida, Estambul. El retrato del personaje central se completa con un esbozo de la riqueza intertextual de la obra, y la visión de la capital turca se enmarca en la representación posmoderna de la ciudad, bajo un prisma complejo que la aleja del típico exotismo decimonónico.

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Echoes of ‘Exiled’ Nabokov and Pamuk in Murmures à Beyoğlu: Istanbul as a Border Chronotrope

Comparative Critical Studies, 2018

Murmures à Beyoğlu by David Boratav, winner of the Prix Gironde Nouvelles Écritures (2009), is a ... more Murmures à Beyoğlu by David Boratav, winner of the Prix Gironde Nouvelles Écritures (2009), is a transcultural and postmodern novel, influenced by the writings of Nabokov and Pamuk, namely The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Lolita (1955), and Istanbul (2003). This paper identifies various guises in which the omnipresence of the work and personality of Nabokov and Pamuk manifest themselves in Boratav's first novel, which I interpret as a noteworthy homage to the former. The essay argues, moreover, that thanks to their influence, Boratav's work acquires a unique dimension, via its highly original and complex portrait of Istanbul, that places it on a par with that of the masters. This tribute to both writers results in a book in which the main character's wanderings, characterised by a paradigmatic in-between-ness, portray an Istanbul I define as a ‘border chronotrope’.

Història de la meva vida. Autobiografia de George Sand

George Sand's autobiography translated into Catalan. http://edicions.uib.cat/Novetats-portada... more

El gat i la rata, Günter Grass

Cited in http://www.raco.cat/index.php/QuadernsTraduccio/article/viewFile/265457/353041, p. 134

Gabriel Ferrater, Traductor de Gottfried Benn

Catalan Review, 2013

Gottfried Benn (1886-1956) is one of the most controversial and representative twentieth century ... more Gottfried Benn (1886-1956) is one of the most controversial and representative twentieth century German writers. Because of the biased reception he had in Europe, it took a very long time for his work to be esteemed in Spain. However, against the prevailing atmosphere of the Franco regime, in October 1957 (just a year after Benn's death) the Catalan writer Gabriel Ferrater (1922-1972) translated into Spanish 12 of the poems of Benn's expressionist poetry work Morgue (1912). It is the aim of this paper to assess Ferrater as a translator, placing emphasis on the relevance of the fact that, in this case, he exceptionally translated poetry (when as a general rule he chose both fictional and nonfictional works in prose)-significantly when not even a year had passed since his own poems had first been published. The starting point will be a comparative study and assessment of Ferrater's two translations of the poem "Negerbraut" ("La novia del negro"), in verse (1957) and in prose (1964) respectively, which will permit us to explore the writer-translator issue, among other questions of relevance within the field of translation studies. "Per a qui cerca expressar el seu interior, l'art no és quelcom que pertany a les ciències de l'esperit, sinó que és tan corporal com una empremta dactilar." (Benn, Szenen und Schriften 323) 1

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Introduction: The politics of translation and the translation of politics

The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research, 2020

In their introduction to the much-quoted edited collection Translation, Power, Subversion, Álvare... more In their introduction to the much-quoted edited collection Translation, Power, Subversion, Álvarez and Vidal (1996, p. 2) posit that translation is one the most representative paradigms of the clash between cultures. In their view, it is important to examine the relationship between the production of "knowledge in a given culture and its transmission, relocation and reinterpretation in the target culture". Álvarez and Vidal underscore the influence of the translator as well as the power relationship that the source and target cultures may have upon the translation practice. Although twenty-five years have passed since the publication of their book, Álvarez and Vidal's work keeps resonating in a world that has become increasingly globalized and where power can be exerted in myriad ways. For Álvarez and Vidal, translation is a political act. And, it may be added, non-translation also is. The influence of politics on translation practice can be observed in the translation of political texts but, as Gagnon claims (2010, p. 252), also in the use of translation as a political statement. The former can be exemplified by the translation of political speeches, such as that of President Donald Trump's inaugural address (discussed by Caimotto's article in this special issue); the translation of news articles, such as those rendered into English and Portuguese by El País or into Spanish and Chinese by The New York Times; and the translation of political texts, such as the works of Karl Marx and his followers that were rendered into Chinese at the beginning of twentieth century. As for translation as a political statement, it refers to the underlying policies that lead to those translations. If we peruse the Spanish versions of The New York Times, for instance, we realize that the texts are only a small fraction of what is published in the English version. The same applies to the English articles that appeared in El País. This is, of course, related to the limited resources apportioned to the translation services of these media, but the very selection of news items to be translated is also a political act. An excellent example to study the way in which ideologies influence translation practices was the simultaneous appointments of Spain's new Prime Minister and El País's new editor back in 2018. These events provide us with an excellent example of how translation can be reflective of the ideological affinity between a government and a specific news corporation (for a discussion, see Valdeón, 2020).

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Je Sois Autre Moy-Mesmes: Generic Blending and French Heritage in Julian Barnes’s Levels of Life

Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 2016

Apunts sobre la influència creativa entre contraris: G. Sand i F. Chopin

Lluc Revista De Cultura I D Idees, Oct 1, 2010

Insights into Barnes' Frenchness

Un exemple de l'utilisation pédagogique d'Internet: Boycottez leurs fromages gluants

Le Francais Face Aux Defis Actuels Histoire Langue Et Culture Vol 2 2004 Isbn 84 338 3238 7 Pags 759 766, 2004

Far away and long ago: William Henry Hudson vs. Guillermo Enrique Hudson

Oceanide, 2012

Sample including Table of contents and introduction

Prieto-Arranz, José Igor et al. eds. 2013: De-Centring Cultural Studies. Past, Present and Future of Popular Culture. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The academic resistance that cultural studies has encountered remains especially visible in Easte... more The academic resistance that cultural studies has encountered remains especially visible in Eastern and Southern European countries. One such is Spain, in which cultural studies is to be seen at best as an emergent research field. Hence the interest of this volume, conceived in Spain by an all-Spanish editorial team and written by a diverse range of authors that prove that, in spite of all difficulties, cultural studies continues to bloom—even in Southern and Eastern Europe. The different chapters offer interdisciplinary insights into a wide selection of cultural materials whose relevance goes well beyond purely aesthetic issues. Altogether, the volume (1) provides interesting theoretical reflections on the subtle (yet arbitrary) borders between popular and canonical culture; (2) explores how the popular culture of yesteryear has influenced and inspired later “canonical” cultural materials; and (3) studies how the reception of, and representation in, popular culture can be accounted...

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