Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

The dark side: an introduction / FEDERICO ITALIANO -- I. (Post-)colonial translations and hegemonic practices: Beyond a taste for the dark side: the apparatus of area and the modern regime of translation under Pax Americana / JON SOLOMON -- The Language of the hegemon: migration and the violence of translation / MONIKA MOKRE -- II. The Holocaust and the translator's ambiguity: Primo Levi's grey zone and the ambiguity of translation in Nazi concentration camps / MICHAELA WOLF -- Translating the Uncanny, Uncanny Translation / CHRISTOPH LEITGEB -- III. The translation of climate change discourses and the ecology of knowledge: Shady Dealings: Translation, Climate and Knowledge / MICHAEL CRONIN -- Climate Change and the Dark Side of Translating Science into Popular Culture / ALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER -- Darkness, Obscurity, Opacity: Ecology in Translation / DANIEL GRAZIADEI -- IV. Translation as zombification: Zombie History: The Undead in Translation / GUDRUN RATH -- ʻMmmRRRrr UrrRrRRrr!!ʼ: Translating Political Anxieties into Zombie--Language in Digital Games / EUGEN PFISTER -- Index.

"We tend to consider translation as something good, virtuous and bright, but it can also function as an instrument of concealment, silencing and misdirection-as something that darkens and obscures. Propaganda, misinformation, narratives of trauma and imagery of the enemy-to mention just a few of the negative phenomena that shape our lives-show patterns of communication in which translation either functions as a weapon or constitutes a space of conflict. But what does this dark side of translation look like? How does it work? Ground-breaking in its theoretical conception and pioneering in its thematic approach, this book unites international scholars from a range of disciplines including philosophy, translation studies, literary theory, ecocriticism, game studies, history and political science. With examples that illustrate complex theoretical and philosophical issues, this book also has a major focus on the translational dimension of ecology and climate change. Transdisciplinary and topical, this book is key reading for researchers, scholars and advanced students of translation studies, literature and related areas"-- Provided by publisher.