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Figures of Interpretation

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This ground-breaking book assembles 31 portraits of people who interpret languages, cultures, situations, institutions and people, and offers graphic interpretations of their collective experience....
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  • 05 February 2021
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This ground-breaking book assembles 31 portraits of people who interpret languages, cultures and situations, and offers graphic interpretations of their collective experience. Their individual stories are part of the larger history of interpreters, interpretation and interpretive readings, and they demonstrate how language intersects with race, class, gender and geopolitical inequalities. The book allows the unexpected to unfold by passing control from the writers to the reader, who will see connections and ruptures unfold between space, time and class while never losing sight of the materiality of living. Together and individually, the portraits tell a powerful story about the structure of contemporary society and the hierarchical distributions of power that permeate our lives.

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Publisher: Channel View Publications
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Series: Writing without Borders
Publication Date: 05 February 2021
Trim Size: 7.80 X 5.10 in
ISBN: 9781788929387
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Translation and language interpretation
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This book can be read as a collection of historical and contemporary portraits of interpreting subjects. It invites us to understand systems of power and oppression through interpreters’ narratives, practices and experiences of inequality. The book offers not only a political account of language, but also a distinctive mode of writing the social and practicing critique.

B.A.S.S. Meier-Lorente-Muth-Duchêne works in academia.

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(names of the figures of interpretation in alphabetical order)

B.A.S.S. Meier-Lorente-Muth-Duchêne: NAVIGATING FIGURES OF INTERPRETATION

Aïcha and Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà: AÏCHA       

Kathleen Painter: AIJAN AND KATHLEEN

Mi-Cha Flubacher: AN CHA

Alexandre Duchêne: ANTOINE   

Arnaldo Bernabe Jr.: ARNALDO 

Shanthini Pillai: AROKIAM AND THE UNNAMED CATECHIST

Bernardino Tavares: BERNARDINO         

Natalie Tarr: BINTOU AND ALAIN            

Aneta Pavlenko: CONRAD           

Maya Muratov: DANIEL

Stefanie Meier: DARKO 

Carla M. Pacis: ENRIQUE             

Carmen Delgado Luchner: EVANS

Inmaculada Garcia-Sanchez: FATIMA

Stefan Vollmer: GOOGLE TRANSLATE     

Dina Bolocan: ILONA

Carlos Pestana: JULDÉ   

Sabine Lehner: MANU   

Monica Heller: MME T., JANET, GINNY, LYNE, MASHA, ANNA, PAULETTE & MONICA            

Sebastian Muth: NARENDRA      

Nima Jebelli and Sibo Kanobana: NIMA

Priscilla Angela T. Cruz: NON      

Mi-Cha Flubacher: PETER            

Kamilla Kraft: PIA           

Rachel Mairs: QUINTUS

Ebenezer Tedjouong: ROLAND  

Beatriz Lorente: SAEED 

Verena Krausneker and Sandra Schügerl: SANDRA           

Tulay Caglitutuncigil: TULAY       

Biao Xiang: YANG           

Jorge Alvis: YENNY