Key Cultural Texts in Translation

Intro -- Key Cultural Texts in Translation -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- About the contributors -- Introduction: Key Cultural Texts in translation -- References -- Part I. Gender and identity -- Chapter 1. Genos, sex, gender and genre -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- 5. -- References -- Chapter 2. Dancing through the waves of feminism: Martha Graham and Marie Chouinard as intersemiotic translators -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Martha Graham - Rite of Spring -- 3. Marie Chouinard - Le Sacre du printemps -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Part II. Texts and politics -- Chapter 3. Bartolomé de Las Casas' Breve Relación de la Destrucción de Las Indias (Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies) (1552) in translation: The politics of linguistic and cultural appropriation -- 1. Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552) -- 2. The Spanish Colonie (1583) -- 3. Le miroir de la tyrannie Espagnole perpetrée aux Indes Occidentales (1620) -- 4. The Tears of the Indians (1656) -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4. Have English translations of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, an icon of German culture, been affected by the changing relationship between Germany and Britain in the twentieth century? -- 1. Performance and Translation History -- 2. Wagner's Ring and anti-Semitism -- 3. The translations - pre WWI and post WW2: traces of anti-Semitism? -- References -- Chapter 5. Communicating change: Two contemporary Polish novels in translation into English -- 1. Key Cultural Texts and the concept of change -- 2. Mapping the journey -- 3. Historical context: Poland after 1989 -- 4. Narratives of new Poland -- 5. Words of the past -- 6. Dialogue with tradition -- 7. Educating Polish Queens -- 8. Thugs will be thugs -- 9. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part III. Texts and places