TY - BOOK AU - Bertacco,Simona TI - Language and translation in postcolonial literatures: multilingual contexts, translational texts T2 - Routledge research in postcolonial literatures SN - 9780203078167 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Literature KW - Translations KW - History and criticism KW - Translating and interpreting KW - Social aspects KW - Literature and globalization KW - Multilingualism and literature KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - Electronic books KW - lcsh N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - https://eresourcesptsl.ukm.remotexs.co/user/login?url=http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203078167 ER -