Self-Translation

Anthony Cordingley is Lecturer in Translation at the Université de Paris 8, France.

Original, insightful and contradictory, these essays set up a site of debate where self-translation becomes far more than a marginal oddity: it is key to the configuration of Translation Studies. Self-translation is shown to be a question not of texts, but of what happens to the subject in the overlaps of cultures: it is translation of the self, and thus of a self in translation. The marginal oddity is henceforth the assumption of an original.

• Notes on Contributors Introduction Anthony Cordingley Part I. Self-translation and Literary History 1. The Self-Translator as Rewriter Susan Bassnett 2. On Mirrors, Dynamics & Self-Translations J.C. Santoyo 3. History and self-translation Jan Hokenson Part II. Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Sociology, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy 4. A Sociological Glance at Self-Translation and Self-Translators Rainier Grutman 5. The Passion of Self-Translation: A Masocritical Perspective Anthony Cordingley 6. Translating Philosophy: Vilém Flusser's Practice of Multiple Self-Translation Rainer Guldin Part III.Post-colonial Perspectives 7. Translated otherness, self-translated in-betweenness: Hybridity as medium versus hybridityas object in Anglophone African writing Susanne Klinger 8.'Why bother with the original?': Self-translation and Scottish Gaelic poetry CorinnaKrause 9. Indigenization and Opacity: Self-translation in the Okinawan/Ryukyuan writings of Takara Benand Medoruma Shun Mark Gibeau Part IV. Cosmopolitan Identities/Texts 10.Self-translation, Self-reflection, Self-derision: Samuel Beckett's Bilingual Humour Will Noonan11. Writing in Translation: A New Self in a Second Language Elin-Maria Evangelista 12.Between languages: metalinguistic elements in fiction and multilingual self-dialogue Aurelia Klimkiewicz BibliographyIndex