Rebecca Ruth Gould

Vazha Pshavela

Death of Bagrat Zakharych and Other Stories

Rebecca Ruth Gould is a writer and translator based in the UK. Her most recent book is Erasing Palestine (Verso, 2023). Her translations from Persian with Kayvan Tahmasebian have received PEN Presents and PEN Translates awards from English PEN. She is currently working on a book entitled Doves Born from Light: Writers' Homes and Readers' Lives and an oral history of the Gaza Genocide with the Lighthouse Collective. She writes and edits The Textual Materialist newsletter and is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. "Throughout her vast oeuvre, Rebecca Ruth Gould writes with poetic language. Her boundaries are liquid and wholly interwoven. Her stories pulse with reflection, often unfolding as meta-narratives. Her writing abounds in historical texture, as though she were offering us a tale rather than a treatise." -Saleh Razzouk, Syrian writer and translator of Strangers into Arabic "Gould makes no attempt to resolve the issues that divide and unite people or the wider religious and political dilemmas that divide the world. She leaves the reader with no happy ending for either subject. There is, however, a satisfying sense of a story, romance, allegory, or both, well told by a highly skilled and insightful storyteller." -Wendy Klein, author of Mood Indigo (2016). "Rebecca Ruth Gould demonstrates how love--self-possessed and stubborn--transcends the bounds of language, culture, and state repression." -David Cooke, editor, The High Window "The language employed [by Gould] is the language of longing. I was touched by how much the narrator sees as well as by how much is held back." -Sabyasachi (Sachi) Nag, author of Bloodlines (2009) and Could You Please, Please Stop Singing? (2016)

Strangers

Matthew Reynolds

Abhishek Jain

Jernej Habjan

Ida Klitgård

Yunte Huang

Kayvan Tahmasebian

Mary Frank

Annmarie Drury

Ulrich Timme Kragh

Céline Sabiron

Andrés Claro

Paola Gaudio

Eugenia Kelbert

Léa Rychen

Madli Kütt

Ana Teresa Marques dos Santos

Cláudia Pazos-Alonso

Eleni Philippou

Yousif M. Qasmiyeh

Giovanni Pietro Vitali

Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than six hundred times into over sixty languages. Prismatic Jane Eyre argues that we should see these many re-writings, not as simple replications of the novel, but as a release of its multiple interpretative possibilities: in other words, as a prism. Prismatic Jane Eyre develops the theoretical ramifications of this idea, and reads Brontë’s novel in the light of them: together, the English text and the many translations form one vast entity, a multilingual world-work, spanning many times and places, from Cuba in 1850 to 21st-century China; from Calcutta to Bologna, Argentina to Iran. Co-written by many scholars, Prismatic Jane Eyre traces the receptions of the novel across cultures, showing why, when and where it has been translated (and no less significantly, not translated – as in Swahili), and exploring its global publishing history with digital maps and carousels of cover images. Above all, the co-authors read the translations and the English text closely, and together, showing in detail how the novel’s feminist power, its political complexities and its romantic appeal play out differently in different contexts and in the varied styles and idioms of individual translators. Tracking key words such as ‘passion’ and ‘plain’ across many languages via interactive visualisations and comparative analysis, Prismatic Jane Eyre opens a wholly new perspective on Brontë’s novel, and provides a model for the collaborative close-reading of world literature. Prismatic Jane Eyre is a major intervention in translation and reception studies and world and comparative literature. It will also interest scholars of English literature, and readers of the Brontës.

Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages

Prismatic Jane Eyre

The widespread adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism and the internalisation of its norms has set in motion a simplistic definitional logic for dealing with social problems that has impoverished discussions of racism and prejudice more generally, across Britain and beyond. It has encouraged a focus on words over substance. Erasing Palestine tells the story of how this has happened, with a focus on internal politics within Britain over the course of the past several years. In order to do so, it tells a much longer story, about the history of antisemitism since the beginning of the twentieth century. This is also a story about Palestine, a chronicle of the erasure of the violence against the Palestinian people, and a story about free speech, and why it matters to Palestinian freedom.

Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom

Erasing Palestine

Spanning the period between the end of the Russo-Caucasian War and the death of the first female Chechen suicide bomber, this groundbreaking book is the first to compare Georgian, Chechen, and Daghestani depictions of anticolonial insurgency. Rebecca Gould draws from previously untapped archival sources as well as from prose, poetry, and oral narratives to assess the impact of Tsarist and Soviet rule in the Islamic Caucasus. Examining literary representations of social banditry to tell the story of Russian colonialism from the vantage point of its subjects, among numerous other themes, Gould argues that the literatures of anticolonial insurgency constitute a veritable resistance—or “transgressive sanctity”—to colonialism.

The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus

Writers and Rebels

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism provides an accessible, diverse and ground-breaking overview of literary, cultural, and political translation across a range of activist contexts. As the first extended collection to offer perspectives on translation and activism from a global perspective, this handbook includes case studies and histories of oppressed and marginalised people from over twenty different languages. The contributions will make visible the role of translation in promoting and enabling social change, in promoting equality, in fighting discrimination, in supporting human rights, and in challenging autocracy and injustice across the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, East Asia, the US and Europe. With a substantial introduction, thirty-one chapters, and an extensive bibliography, this Handbook is an indispensable resource for all activists, translators, students and researchers of translation and activism within translation and interpreting studies.

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism

Appendix II: Georgian Text of Titsian Tabidze, "Gunib" -- Chronology of Texts, Authors, and Events -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- D -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Y -- Z -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

Rebecca Ruth Gould

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