Language/Translation

This year’s (dis)junctions conference, “Narratives Mediated,” calls for “papers that explore the construction and definition of ‘narrative’ in all its mediated and mediating forms.” This panel seeks paper submissions that deal with language as media, or as a mediating form. One way to consider language as media is to consider comparative languages, or translations. In what ways does translating a story or narrative from language to language, culture to culture, or time to time change or mediate the narrative? In what ways do theories and methods of translating affect or create a narrative of translation? In what ways does a translation that removes language as the mediating form (for example – books “translated” into films) affect the narrative or our understanding of it? These are just some of the questions abstracts submitted to this panel might address. Papers from any time period or tradition that deal with any aspect of translation, or language as a material or media, are welcome.