Self-Translation

<p><i>S</i><i>elf-Translation: Brokering originality in hybrid<br>culture</i> 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.</p>