Description
Book SynopsisThis innovative book takes the concept of translation beyond its traditional boundaries, adding to the growing body of literature which challenges the idea of translation as a primarily linguistic transfer.
To gain a fresh perspective on the work of translation in the complex processes of meaning-making across physical, social and cultural domains (conceptualized as translationality), Piotr Blumczynski revisits one of the earliest and most fundamental senses of translation: corporeal transfer. His study of translated religious officials and translated relics reframes our understanding of translation as a process creating a sense of connection with another time, place, object or person. He argues that a promise of translationality animates a broad spectrum of cultural, artistic and commercial endeavours: it is invoked, for example, in museum exhibitions, art galleries, celebrity endorsements, and the manufacturing of musical instruments. Translationality offers a way to reimagi
Table of Contents
Table of contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. What does translation do?
2. Squaring the circle: episcopal translations
3. Holy bones: translations of relics
4. From gift shops to the Custom Shop: translationality for sale
5. The experience of translationality
References
Index
