Language and translation in postcolonial literatures  :  multilingual contexts, translational texts / 
edited by Simona Bertacco. 
 - x, 234 pages :  illustrations. 
 - Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ;  49. .
 - 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 -- pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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 -- pt. 4. 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/><br/>Mode of access : World Wide Web. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780203078167 
<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>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.