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Learning To Weave Water: Defining the Translator-Activist via Le Guin’s Changing Planes |
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| Creator | Emily K. Iekel |
| Title | Learning To Weave Water: Defining the Translator-Activist via Le Guin’s Changing Planes |
| Publisher | IATIS and Chalermprakiat Center of Translation and Interpretation at Chulalongkorn University |
| Publication Year | 2569 |
| Journal Title | New Voices in Translation Studies |
| Journal Vol. | 31 |
| Journal No. | 2 |
| Page no. | 83-107 |
| Keyword | activism, anthropocene, eco-translation, translation, unilingualism, writer-activist |
| URL Website | https://newvoices.arts.chula.ac.th/ |
| Website title | New Voices in Translation Studies |
| ISSN | 1819-5644 |
| Abstract | This paper proposes to expand Rob Nixon’s concept of the writer-activist, from Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Anthropocene, to include the translator-activist as a figure promulgating awareness and activism around global climate change. This translator-activist occupies a mediatory space between source and target culture and languages and uses tools such as footnotes, translator’s prefaces, and bilingual writing to intensify the presence and agency of nature and the visibility of climate disaster. Ursula K. Le Guin’s stories, especially those in the collection Changing Planes, serve as a framework for this development of translator-activism because language and translation serve as interplanary bridges for her characters when discussing the natural world, and because Le Guin herself was concerned with the deeper messaging of language and her translation work has been comparatively less-studied. I contend that her work, and translation tools, form a roadmap for activist translation in the environmental sphere. |
