Introduction: the fact of translation in postcolonial literatures / Translational Texts. Bridging the silence: inner translation and the metonymic gap / 'Writing with an accent': from early decolonization to contemporary gender issues in the African novel in French, English, and Arabic / Learning to Shant well and the art of the good translator / The "gift" of translation to postcolonial literatures / Translation as Pre-Text: 'Make a plan': pre-texts in Zimbabwe / Postcolonial cities and the culture of translation / Elli, Lella, Elengou: a vernacular poetics for the Mediterranean / The politics of language choice in the "English-language" theater of Malaysia / Contexts of Translation: 'Word of struggle': the politics of translation in indigenous Pacific literature / Translation and creation in a postcolonial context / Opening up to complexity in the global era: translating postcolonial literatures / Colonial Past, Digital Future: Civilized, globalized, or nationalized?: Peter Greenway's Pillowbook and postcolonial calligraphy / Doing the translation sums: colonial pasts and digital futures