{"product_id":"writing-between-the-lines-portraits-of-canadian-anglophone-translators-9781554586165","title":"Writing between the Lines: Portraits of Canadian Anglophone Translators","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e The essays in \u003ci\u003eWriting between the Lines\u003c\/i\u003e explore the lives of twelve of Canada's most eminent anglophone literary translators, and delve into how these individuals have contributed to the valuable process of literary exchange between francophone and anglophone literatures in Canada. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Through individual portraits, this book traces the events and life experiences that have led W.H. Blake, John Glassco, Philip Stratford, Joyce Marshall, Patricia Claxton, Doug Jones, Sheila Fischman, Ray Ellenwood, Barbara Godard, Susanne de Lotbinire-Harwood, John Van Burek, and Linda Gaboriau into the complex world of literary translation. Each essay-portrait examines why they chose to translate and what linguistic and cultural challenges they have faced in the practice of their art. Following their relationships with authors and publishers, the translators also reveal how they have defined the goals and the process of literary translation. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Containing original, detailed biographical and bibliographical material, \u003ci\u003eWriting between the Lines\u003c\/i\u003e offers many new insights into the literary translation process, and the diverse roles of the translator as social agent. The first text on Canadian translators, it makes a major contribution in the areas of literary translation, comparative literature, Canadian literature, and cultural studies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e``Since the time of the inaugural funding of literary translations by the Canada Council in the early 1970s ... many important assessments of the theory and practice of Canadian literary translation have been published.... To that distinguished list of scholarly studies must now be added this recent work edited by Agnew Whitfield.... Writing between the Lines is and will remain a useful and very informative collection of insights into the labours and achievements of some of Canada's most distinguished anglophone translators.'' -- John J. O'Connor -- University of Toronto Quarterly, Letters in Canada 2006, Volume 77, Number 1, Winter 2008\u003cbr\u003e`` Writing between the Lines will find a useful place on the shelves of students, researhers, and general readers interested in translation in Canada.... The essays have been very consistently edited and are without exception interesting and detailed...[and] reveal the rich diversity in translation approaches.'' -- Glen Nichols -- Canadian Literature, 192, Spring 2007\u003cbr\u003e``This well-edited volume reveals the hidden humanity that enables cross-cultural communication. In the detail of lives, in the variety of backgrounds and goals, these biographies upset countless facile generalizations about translation and translators. They show why translation is so important to Canada, and why Canada is now important for translation.'' -- Anthony Pym, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. Author of\u003cbr\u003e``This book is a tribute to those who smuggle culture across the anglophone and francophone divide into Canada--the literary translators.'' -- Antoine Sirois, professor emeritus, Université de Sherbrooke. Author of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eWriting between the Lines: Portraits of Canadian Anglophone Translators\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Agnes Whitfield\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction  Agnes Whitfield\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilliam Hume Blake, or the Translator as Amateur Ethnologist  Sherry Simon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlassco Virtuoso  Patricia Godbout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoyce Marshall, or the Accidental Translator  Jane Everett\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhilip Stratford: The Comparatist as Smuggler  Gillian Lane-Mercier\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn D.G. Jones and Translating Outside  Stephanie Nutting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePatricia Claxton: A Civil Translator  Agnes Whitfield\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSheila Fischman: The Consummate Professional  Pamela Grant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTransformations of Barbara Godard  Kathy Mezei\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRay Ellenwood: The Translator as Activist  Barbara Kerslake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSusanne de Lotbinière-Harwood: Totally Between  Agnès Conacher\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Van Burek: Bringing Tremblay to Toronto  Jane Koustas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLinda Gaboriau: Playing with Performance  Robert Wallace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors' Bios\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAgnès Conacher is an assistant professor in the French Department at Queen's University. She has published studies on Agrippa d'Aubigné, her area of specialization, and the nouveau roman (Claude Simon, Butor). She has also translated Mireille Calle Gruber's article for \u003ci\u003eThe Hélène Cixous Reader\u003c\/i\u003e and essays by Derrida for the journal\u003ci\u003e Trois\u003c\/i\u003e. Her current research focusses on mysticism, seventeenth-century women philosophers, and Cyrano de Bergerac.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJane Everett is an associate professor in the Department of French Language and Literature at McGill University, where she teaches Québec francophone literature and translation. Her edition of the Gabrielle Roy-Joyce Marshall correspondence was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2005. Recent publications include \"\"Réécrire,\"\" in Jane Everett and François Ricard, ed., \u003ci\u003eGabrielle Roy réécrite\u003c\/i\u003e and \"\"Le devenir-anglais du texte et le rapport à l'écriture: Gabrielle Roy et Jacques Ferron,\"\" in Brigitte Faivre-Duboz and Patrick Poirier, eds., \u003ci\u003eJacques Ferron: Le palimpseste infini\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePatricia Godbout is an associate professor of translation at the Université de Sherbrooke and a member of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada. From 1986 to 1992, she was co-editor of \u003ci\u003eellipse\u003c\/i\u003e, a literary magazine devoted to the translation of Canadian poetry. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTraduction littéraire et sociabilité interculturelle au Canada\u003c\/i\u003e (1950-1960).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePamela Grant is a professor and former director of the Département des lettres et communications at the Université de Sherbrooke, where she teaches courses in professional writing, editing, translation, and translation theory. She holds a PhD in linguistics from the Université de Montréal. A certified translator (OTTIAQ), she is a co-author of \u003ci\u003ethe Bibliography of Comparative Studies in Canadian, Québec, and Foreign Literatures \/ Bibliographie d'études comparées des littératures canadienne, québécoise et étrangères 1930-1995\u003c\/i\u003e. The Québec English specialist for \u003ci\u003ethe Canadian Oxford Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e, she has published her work in a variety of scholarly publications in Canada, the United States, and Europe.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBarbara Kerslake holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. Her career as a translator began in 1979 with Harlequin Books. A freelance translator with the Secretary of State since 1983, she has also worked for the Canada Council and various academic publishers, translating from French to English. Her interests include Québec culture and literature, especially theatre, since she is also a playwright. Since 1986, she has taught translation at York University.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJane Koustas is an associate professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Brock University. Her articles on Québec theatre and translation have appeared in \u003ci\u003eFrench Literature and Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuébec Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEssays on Parody\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMéta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTTR\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ethe University of Toronto Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. A contributor to\u003ci\u003e the Dictionary of Literary Biography\u003c\/i\u003e, she is the co-author (with J. Donohoe) of \u003ci\u003eRobert Lepage: Théâtre sans frontières\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2002, she edited a special issue of \u003ci\u003eTTR, Translation in Canada: Trends and Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGillian Lane-Mercier is an associate professor in the Department of French Language and Literature at McGill University, where she teaches critical theory and twentieth-century French literature. Her current areas of research include translation studies, literary theory, reception theory, the contemporary French novel, and literary translation in Québec and Canada since 1960. Author of \u003ci\u003eLa parole romanesque\u003c\/i\u003e and co-author of \u003ci\u003eFaulkner: Une experience de retraduction\u003c\/i\u003e, she has published numerous articles on the theory of the novel and in the field of translation studies. She is currently working on a book on contemporary Anglo-Québécois and Canadian novelist-translators.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKathy Mezei teaches in the Department of Humanities at Simon Fraser University; she has published several articles on literary translation and \u003ci\u003ethe Bibliography of Criticism on French and English Literary Translations in Canada\u003c\/i\u003e; she was one of the founding editors of \u003ci\u003eTessera\u003c\/i\u003e, a feminist journal. She is part of the team, based at the Université de Sherbrooke, producing a database on Comparative Canadian Literatures and Translation Studies. \u003ci\u003eDomestic Modernism, the Inter-War Novel, and E.H. Young\u003c\/i\u003e, co-authored with Chiara Briganti, is forthcoming from Ashgate Press.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStephanie Nutting is an associate professor in the Department of French Studies at the University of Guelph. Her main area of research is Québec theatre and poetry. She has published \u003ci\u003eLe tragique dans le théâtre québécois et canadien-français, 1950-1989\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous articles in \u003ci\u003eVoix et Images\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ethe French Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpirale\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ethe University of Toronto Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals. She is president of the Association des professeur(e)s de français des universités et collèges canadiens.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSherry Simon taught for many years at Concordia University. She is Canada Research Chair in Translation and Cultural History at Glendon College, York University. A member of the editorial board of the cultural magazine Spirale for more than ten years, she is the author or editor of numerous publications on feminist and postcolonial theories of translation, including (with David Homel), \u003ci\u003eMapping Literature: The Art and Politics of Translation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLe Trafic des langues, Culture in Transit: Translating the Literature of Quebec\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGender in Translation: Cultural Identity and the Politics of Transmission\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRobert Wallace is Professor Emeritus of English and Drama Studies at York University. His books include \u003ci\u003eProducing Marginality: Theatre and Criticism in Canada\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Work: Conversations with English-Canadian Playwrights\u003c\/i\u003e (with Cynthia Zimmerman), \u003ci\u003eQuebec Voices, Making Out: Plays by Gay Men, Theatre and Transformation in Contemporary Canada\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStaging a Nation: Evolutions in Contemporary Canadian Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written and produced ten documentaries for CBC radio about twentieth-century performance and edited more than twenty volumes of Canadian plays for Coach House Press.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAgnes Whitfield co-ordinated the translation program at Queen's University for ten years, and is now a professor and the former director of the School of Translation at York University. She has published ten books and over fifty articles on Québec literature and translation, including \u003ci\u003eLe Métier du double: Portraits de traducteurs et traductrices francophones\u003c\/i\u003e. Her most recent articles have appeared in \u003ci\u003eMéta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ethe University of Toronto Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and international conference proceedings in Porto and Prague. Shortlisted for the Governor-General's Award for \u003ci\u003eDivine Diva\u003c\/i\u003e, her translation of \u003ci\u003eVenite a cantare\u003c\/i\u003e by Québec writer Daniel Gagnon, she is a certified translator (ATIO). President of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies for two mandates (1995-99), she was Seagram Visiting Chair at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (2003-2004).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188669342039,"sku":"9781554586165","price":35.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-between-the-lines-portraits-of-canadian-anglophone-translators-9781554586165","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}