Translation traces in the archive: unfixing documents, destabilising evidence

Translation traces in the archive: unfixing documents, destabilising evidence
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档案中的翻译痕迹:破坏文件、破坏证据稳定

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10.1080/13556509.2020.1735091
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2020
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The Translator
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Israel H
Israel H
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这篇文章关注的是一个研究南亚语言自传体记述的合作研究团队所面临的挑战。尽管有几份文件称它们是译文,但在每一种情况下,原文和译文都没有得到保存。面对原文的材料缺失,我们如何才能建设性地与原文的隐含存在进行接触?这意味着制定一套关于翻译及其与档案的关系的新问题。基于福柯对“档案”的批判和他关于“考古”接触档案的论证,我们考察了如何研究文档中我们称之为“翻译痕迹”的东西:双语文本、翻译摘录、片段和反复接力翻译的证据。我们进一步问,尽管翻译是无形的,但它在记录生活中扮演着什么角色。档案馆可以被概念化为语言、文本和集体记忆通过翻译相交的“接触区”。我们认为,过去的档案不可避免地影响着我们对特定历史时期翻译的物质存在和功能的研究和理解。最后,我们认为,突出翻译的作用开辟了概念化和处理历史档案的新途径。
This article focuses on a challenge faced by a collaborative research team working on autobiographical accounts in South Asian languages. Although several documents stated they were translations, both source and target texts were not preserved in each case. How could could we engage constructively with the implied presence of the source texts in the face of their material absence? This meant developing a new set of questions on translation and its relationship with the archive. Drawing on Foucault’s critique of ‘the archive’ and his argument for an ‘archaeological’ engagement with archives, we examine how to study what we term ‘translation traces’ in the documents: bilingual texts, translated extracts, fragments, and evidence of repeated relay translations. We ask further, what role translation, invisibilized as it is, plays in the documentation of lives. The archive can be conceptualised as a ‘contact zone’ where languages, texts, and collective memory intersect through translation. We suggest that archives from the past inevitably shape our study and understanding of material presence and function of translation in specific historical periods. Finally, we argue that highlighting the role of translation opens up new ways of conceptualising and working with historical archives.
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