Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026): Special Issue: Translation as History

Special issue guest-edited by Margarita Savchenkova.

Published: 2026-07-30

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Editor's Introduction

• History as Translation Searching for Translation in the Traces of History

  Margarita Savchenkova

  1-9

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Epigraph

• Epigraph

  Margarita Savchenkova

  10

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Articles

• History as Translation A Common Theoretical Space

  Luigi Alonzi

  11-24

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• History in Motion Translation and the Political Afterlives of the Past in Early Modern Europe

  Adrián Izquierdo

  25-41

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• Translating the French Revolution Rewriting Political Experience in Olympe de Gouges’s Theatre

  Estibaliz Valle

  42-61

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• “There Is No Doubt It Must Have a Figurative Meaning” How Manzoni Read, Interpreted and Translated History in the Storia della colonna infame

  David Gibbons

  62-79

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• Translating and Popularizing China’s Past in Portugal Double Foreignness in José de Freitas’s A China antiga e moderna (1941)

  Charles Cheung

  80-96

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• Translation, Oral History and the Anarchive in Samia Halaby’s Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre

  Tamara Barakat

  97-116

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• Re-screening the Past Multi-tiered Reframing in Dubbing History Films

  Parina Ghomi Oskoui

  117-135

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• Translating the GDR Narrative Authority and the Politics of Memory in Unified Germany

  Hanna Blum

  136-152

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• Translating History in the Subjunctive Mood Knowledge of the Past Through Counterfactual Means at the Deutsche Historische Museum

  Joy McClean

  153-170

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• ‘The Past Is a Foreign Country’ Reimaging Formosa as a Translation Space in the Red Fort Museum

  Min-Hsiu Liao

  171-186

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Book Reviews

• Translating the Past Rethinking the Practice of Historiography

  Celestine Mannuthy Babu

  187-191

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• Emotional Translation of History

  Inés Carril Vega

  192-194

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• “Again, but for the First Time” Translating His-stories Through a Feminist Historiographical Lens

  Javier de la Morena-Corrales

  195-200

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