• ISBN13: 9781441142894
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: April 16, 2013
• Pages: 216
• Original Price: 54.99 GBP
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 318 grams

About the Book S elf-Translation: Brokering originality in hybrid<br>culture provides critical, historical and interdisciplinary analyses of<br>self-translators and their works. It investigates the challenges which the<br>bilingual oeuvre and the experience of the self-translator pose to conventional<br>definitions of translation and the problematic dichotomies of "original" and<br>"translation", "author" and "translator". Canonical self-translators, such<br>Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov and Rabindranath Tagore, are here discussed in<br>the context of previously overlooked self-translators, from Japan to South<br>Africa, from the Basque Country to Scotland. This book seeks therefore to offer<br>a portrait of the diverse artistic and political objectives and priorities of<br>self-translators by investigating different cosmopolitan, post-colonial and<br>indigenous practices. Numerous contributions to this volume extend the scope of<br>self-translation to include the composition of a work out of a multilingual<br>consciousness or society. They demonstrate how production within hybrid<br>contexts requires the negotiation of different languages within the self, <br>generating powerful experiences, from crisis to liberation, and texts that<br>offer key insights into our increasingly globalized culture.