Language and translation in postcolonial literatures : multilingual contexts, translational texts

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Author:

Bertacco, Simona, 1971- editor.

ISBN:

9780415656047

Physical Description:

x, 234 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 49

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 49.

Contents:

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

Subject Term:

Literature -- Translations -- History and criticism.

Translating and interpreting -- Social aspects.

Literature and globalization.

Multilingualism and literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added Author:

Bertacco, Simona, 1971-

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This collection gathers together a stellar group of contributors offering innovative perspectives on the issues of language and translation in postcolonial studies. In a world where bi- and multilingualism have become quite normal, this volume identifies a gap in the critical apparatus in postcolonial studies in order to read cultural texts emerging out of multilingual contexts. The role of translation and an awareness of the multilingual spaces in which many postcolonial texts are written are fundamental issues with which postcolonial studies needs to engage in a far more concerted fashion. The essays in this book by contributors from Australia, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Cyprus, Malaysia, Quebec, Ireland, France, Scotland, the US, and Italy outline a pragmatics of language and translation of value to scholars with an interest in the changing forms of literature and culture in our times. Essay topics include: multilingual textual politics; the benefits of multilingual education in postcolonial countries; the language of gender and sexuality in postcolonial literatures; translational cities; postcolonial calligraphy; globalization and the new digital ecology.