History of the Present Time, the Shoah and paratranslation: the process of constructing narratives about the genocide

Abstract

This paper aims to study the relationship between the history of the present, Holocaust studies and paratranslation, as well as to prove how the di-fferent analysis carried out by investigations about genocides have considered these fields of study. Through a bibliographic perspective and having gathered several papers throughout the second half of the 20th and 21st centuries, our standpoints have focused on finding the historical relationship between the mentioned fields, highlighting the difficulties that each of them has had to emerge in time and space in terms of categories and concepts. In addition to the pre-sentation of paratranslation as a multi-perspective approach, our goal has been to understand how a concept commonly associated with the linguistics field is connected to the history of the present and how both fields are interrelated with studies about the Shoah that, in a certain way, have been linked to the beginnings of these two approaches.