“There Were Days I Couldn’t Work”
How Translators Affect and Are Affected by Translations
Keywords:
emotion, translation narratives, body, politics of emotionAbstract
This paper aims to discuss the effects felt by translators of sensitive texts (Simms, 1997 ), such as the Holocaust, mass suicide, and the COVID-19 pandemic, based on excerpts from interviews that present women translators’ statements about their perceptions of the emotional and physical impacts they felt during the translation process and in the resulting translation. The article begins with the etymology of the word pathos (Etymonline, 2023; Cassin, 2014 ), and then presents some approaches to emotion in translation (Koskinen, 2020 ; Robinson, 1991 , 2020 ). Finally, it analyzes the translators’ narratives, based on the idea of emotion as a form of social relationship (Ahmed, 2014 ). Understanding how women translators are affected helps to comprehend translation’s political and social aspects and the importance of these discussions for translators in training.
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