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Translating Montreal

Episodes in the Life of a Divided City

by (author) Sherry Simon

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2006
Category
Urban

  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773530775
    Publish Date
    Oct 2006
    List Price
    $110.00

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773531086
    Publish Date
    Oct 2006
    List Price
    $37.95

  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773584662
    Publish Date
    Oct 2006
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    $32.95

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Translating Montreal follows the trajectories of adventurous cultural translators such as Malcolm Reid, F.R. Scott, and A.M. Klein - pioneers of the 1950s and 1960s - Pierre Anctil, whose translations from Yiddish to French are emblematic of the dramatic reroutings now occurring across the Montreal landscape, and contemporary writer-translators such as Gail Scott, Erin Mouré, Jacques Brault, Michel Garneau, Nicole Brossard, and Emile Ollivier. Simon argues that translation is a dynamic and subtle tool for analysing cultural contact. An original take on cultural relations in the city, Translating Montreal explores the emergence of the "new" Montrealer. No longer "Franco-Québécois," "Anglo-Québécois," "immigrant," or "ethnic," the new Montrealer is a citizen of a mixed and cosmopolitan city.

About the author

Sherry Simon teaches in the Département d'études françaises at Concordia University and is active in the Literary Translators Association of Canada. She is co-editor, with David Homel, of Mapping Literature: The Art and Politics of Translation (Véhicule 1988).

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