Selftranslation Brokering Originality In Hybrid Culture
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781441142894
Description: Self-Translation: Brokering originality in hybrid culture provides critical, historical and interdisciplinary analyses of self-translators and their works. It investigates the challenges which the bilingual oeuvre and the experience of the self-translator pose to conventional definitions of translation and the problematic dichotomies of 'original' and 'translation', 'author' and 'translator'. Canonical self-translators, such Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov and Rabindranath Tagore, are here discussed in the context of previously overlooked self-translators, from Japan to South Africa.