Translating from the Portuguese : A Life Translated
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1951470346
ISBN-13
9781951470340
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
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University of Massachusetts Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 7th, 2025
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
454 grams
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MemoirsTranslation & interpretationLanguage teaching & learning (other than ELT)
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Elizabeth Lowe charts her journey to becoming a translator through a series of vignettes relating her life as a " third-culture kid" and living and working abroad in a kaleidoscope of cultures and languages. She lived in Germany as a young child immediately after the Second World War while her father worked in the Nuremburg trials and as a newly married military spouse during the Vietnam War she lived in Haiti just prior to Papa Doc's consolidation of power, in Brazil when the military dictatorship seized the country in its two-decade vise, at the University of Coimbra, Portugal during Salazar, and Colombia at the height of the guerrilla conflicts, and in Miami during the heyday of the cartels. The book is a reflection on translation as an art, on five decades teaching languages, literatures, and translation, and on her close relationship with writers from the Lusophone world. It explores theoretical aspects of translation as well as practical challenges faced by translators, especially those working in Portuguese literature. Lowe offers intimate insights into the creative process of the writers she translates and her own philosophy of literary translation.
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