TR 109 features an interview with British sinologist John Minford that focuses on his translation of the ancient Chinese military treatise, The Art of War, written by Sun Tzu c. 5th century BC. This is followed by Cristina de García de Toro’s article on gender issues in the Spanish dubbing of Disney’s Moana; Hamad Al-Rayes’s translation from the Arabic of a chapter from Amin Saleh’s A Hymn to the Universal Room, accompanied by an introductory essay; an essay by American translator and playwright John Biguenet titled “The Sorry and the Piety: On Mistranslating Dante.” The issue closes with book reviews: Gregary J. Racz’s review of Contra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic by Lawrence Venuti; Jeffrey Diteman’s review of The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form by Philip Terry; Sandra Kingery’s review of Nimble Tongues: Studies in Literary Translingualism by Steven G. Kellman; and Judith Shoaf’s review of Beowulf: A New Translation by Anonymous and translated by Maria Dahvana Headley.
Translation Review is a forum for the discussion of the art, practice and theory of literary translation.
Translation Review
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in the School of Arts and Humanities
at The University of Texas at Dallas
