A Zombie Theory of Translation : Or, What is a 'Revenant' Translation?
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Elements in Translation and Interpreting
ISBN-10
1009678183
ISBN-13
9781009678186
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 22nd, 2026
Print length
80 Pages
Weight
5 grams
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22.90 x 15.20 x 0.60 cms
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In 'Des Tours de Babel' Jacques Derrida deconstructs Benjamin's essay, but in 'What is a 'Relevant' Translation?' he argues that Benjamin sees the source text dying and returning to life as the translation. This Element theorizes the six million Holocaust Shylock-zombies but explores that theme narratively.
In 'Des Tours de Babel' Jacques Derrida brilliantly deconstructs Benjamin's 1923 essay, but in 'What is a 'Relevant' Translation?' his wording suggestively hints at the possibility that Benjamin sees the source text dying and returning to life as the translation, in which only the body (not the mind, not the spirit, not the sense) of the source text survives. Smash these two brilliant theorists' ideas together and arguably what emerges is a zombie theory of translation: zombies, after all, are mindless embodied revenants. If we shift Derrida's titular question slightly, and ask “What is a 'Revenant' Translation?”, one radical answer would be that it is a zombie translation. To that end this Element not only theorizes the six million Holocaust Shylock-zombies but explores that theme narratively, in a 5,000-word short story interwoven with the 20,000-word article.
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