Translation as Resistance

The book bears witness to the quiet but resilient fi ght Ukrainian and Czech translators have waged to shape and preserve their mother tongues, save their cultural contact with the West, and energize civic engagement in times of oppression. It presents case studies on Ukrainian Bible translations and politically imbued renderings of Hamlet in Stalinist Russia and early post-Stalinist Czechoslovakia, as well as refl ections on various translation techniques as means of resistance. Such strategies... Zobrazit více