Language and translation in postcolonial literatures :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
multilingual contexts, translational texts
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Simona Bertacco.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(249 pages).
SERIES
Series Title
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures, 49.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Introduction: the fact of translation in postcolonial literatures / Simona Bertacco --; Translational texts. Bridging the silence: inner translation and the metonymic gap / Bill Ashcroft --; From the early decolonization to contemporary gender issues in the African novel in English, French and Arabic / Chantal Zabus --; Learning to shant well and the art of the good translator / Roberta Cimarosti --; The "gift" of translation to postcolonial literatures / Simona Bertacco --; Translation as pre-text. "Make a plan": pre-texts in Zimbabwe / Doris Sommer and Naseemah Mohamed --; Postcolonial cities and the culture of translation / Sherry Simon --; Elli, Lella, Elengou: a vernacular poetics for the Mediterranean / Stephanos Stephanides --; The politics of language choice in the "English-language" theater of Malaysia / Susan Philip --; Contexts of translation. "Word of struggle": the politics of translation in indigenous Pacific literature / Michelle Keown --; Translation and creation in a postcolonial context / Franca Cavagnoli --; Opening up to complexity in the global era: translating postcolonial literatures / Biancamaria Rizzardi Perutelli --; Colonial past, digital future. Civilized, globalized, or nationalized?: Peter Greenway's Pillowbook and post-colonial calligraphy / Evelyn Nien-Ming Chien --; Doing the translation sums: colonial pasts and digital futures / Michael Cronin.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Literature -- Translations -- History and criticism.