Language and translation in postcolonial literatures :  multilingual contexts, translational texts / 
edited by Simona Bertacco. 
 - x, 234 pages   23 cm. 
 - Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;  49 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415656047: 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>LITERATURE--TRANSLATIONS--HISTORY AND CRITICISM.<br/>TRANSLATING AND INTERPRETING--SOCIAL ASPECTS<br/>LITERATURE AND GLOBALIZATION.<br/>MULTILINGUALISM AND LITERATURE.<br/>POSTCOLONIALISM IN LITERATURE.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>418.04  / BER/L