Kevin Windle

The Translation of Drama

PART I: THE HISTORY OF TRANSLATION THEORY PART II: CENTRAL CONCEPTS IN THE STUDY OF TRANSLATION PART III: THE WRITTEN TEXT PART IV: INTERPRETING PART V: MIXED-MODE AND MULTI-MEDIA PART VI: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PART VII: PEDAGOGY AND TRAINING REFERENCES INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND PERSONAL NAMES

Round the World for the Revolution: A Bolshevik Agents Mission to Australia, 1920-22, and His Interrogation by Scotland Yard

This article deals with an extended episode in the career of Aleksandr Mikhailovich Zuzenko (1884–1938), a sailor, journalist and revolutionary who lived in Australia from 1911 to 1919, when he was deported for leading the Brisbane Red Flag Riots. Specifically, it examines his clandestine return to Australia, in 1922, as an agent of the Communist International, with orders to consolidate the divided Communist Party of Australia. Russian sources – principally Zuzenko’s reports to the Comintern’s Executive Committee – are compared with British and Australian archive material, including the transcripts of his interrogation in London by Guy Liddell and H.M. Miller of Special Branch.

New Holland back-translated, or cultural mediation in reverse: Englishing early Russian accounts of the Australian colonies

ABSTRACT This paper describes the process of translating and editing a collection of reports by Russian naval officers and other visitors to Australia during the period 1807–1912. By its nature the project is one of cultural mediation in reverse, involving some back-translation in the accepted sense of the term, while in a broader sense back-translating an Australia ‘made strange’ by a new perspective, to its target audience, which constitutes the original source culture. Invoking Shklovsky’s ostranenie, the paper outlines some of the general and specific matters to be negotiated in cultural transfer involving great geographical distances and a considerable distance in time, while considering how late twentieth-century thinking on ‘domestication’ and ‘foreignization’ applies to an exercise of this kind.