Bertacco Simona - Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures

Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures

This outstanding collection gathers together a stellar group of contributors offering innovative perspectives on the issues of language and translation in postcolonial literatures. 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, Scotland, France, 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. The 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. This volume looks at translation as a basic feature of contemporary global culture, and argues for a translational model to keep postcolonial studies alive in the age of globalization and the internet.

Simona Bertacco is an Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Louisville, USA, and was previously a ricercatrice at the University of Milan, Italy. Her research focuses on issues in postcolonialism, womens and gender studies and translation studies. Her publications include: Skepticism and the Idea of an Other: Reflections on Cavell and Postcolonialism, in Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies (2011); Death and Its Rites in Contemporary Art & Culture (Altre Modernit #4 2010) co-edited with N. Vallorani; Postcolonialism, in The Oxford Companion of Philosophy and Literature (2009).

ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH IN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES

Edited in collaboration with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, this series presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the field. Volumes will concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonized areas, and will include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures. Series editors: Donna Landry and Caroline Rooney.

1. Magical Realism in West African Fiction: Seeing with a Third Eye by Brenda Cooper

2. The Postcolonial Jane Austen edited by You-Me Park and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

3. Contemporary Caribbean Womens Poetry: Making Style by Denisede Caires Narain

4. African Literature, Animism and Politics by Caroline Rooney

5. CaribbeanEnglish Passages: Intertextuality in a Postcolonial Tradition by Tobias Dring

6. Islands in History and Representation edited by Rod Edmond and Vanessa Smith

7. Civility and Empire: Literature and Culture in British India, 18221922 by Anindyo Roy

8. Women Writing the West Indies, 18041939: A Hot Place, Belonging To Us by Evelyn OCallaghan

9. Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations of the body by Michelle Keown

10. Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction by Sue Kossew

11. Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence by Priyamvada Gopal

12. Postcolonial Conrad: Paradoxes of Empire by Terry Collits

13. American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination by Paul Lyons

14. Decolonizing Culture in the Pacific: Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction by Susan Y. Najita

15. Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance and the Politics of Place by Minoli Salgado

16. Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary by Vijay Mishra

17. Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English by Neelam Srivastava

18. English Writing and India, 16001920: Colonizing Aesthetics by Pramod K. Nayar

19. Decolonising Gender: Literature, Enlightenment and the Feminine Real by Caroline Rooney

20. Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography by David Huddart

21. Contemporary Arab Women Writers by Anastasia Valassopoulos

22. Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire by Ben Grant

23. Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture by Stefan Helgesson

24. Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa by James Graham

25. Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden by Sharae Deckard

26. The Idea of the Antipodes: Place, People, and Voices by Matthew Boyd Goldie

27. Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation edited by Sorcha Gunne and Zo Brigley Thompson

28. Locating Transnational Ideals edited by Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio

29. Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature: Remitting the Text by Kezia Page

30. Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present by Sara Salih

31. Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation and Memory by Dennis Walder

32. Publishing the Postcolonial: Anglophone West African and Caribbean Writing in the UK 19481968 by Gail Low

33. Postcolonial Tourism: Literature, Culture, and Environment by Anthony Carrigan

34. The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay by Rashmi Varma

35. Terrorism and Insurgency in Indian-English Literature: Writing Violence and Empire by Alex Tickell

36. The Postcolonial Gramsci edited by Neelam Srivastava and Baidik Bhattacharya

37. Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception edited by Bethan Benwell, James Procter and Gemma Robinson

38. Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin

39. Edward Saids Translocations: Essays in Secular Criticism edited by Tobias Dring and Mark Stein

40. Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East: Rethinking the Liminal in Mashriqi Writing by Norbert Bugeja

41. Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Womens Literature edited by Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai

42. Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective by Anna Ball

43. Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres edited by Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio

44. Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema and Music edited by Karima Laachir and Saeed Talajooy

45. The Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature by Manav Ratti

46. Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook edited by Walid El Hamamsy and Mounira Soliman

47. The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut edited by Caroline Rooney and Rita Sakr

48. Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdies Novels and the Cinematic Imagination by Florian Stadtler

49. Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures: Multilingual Contexts, Translational Texts edited by Simona Bertacco

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