Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages

ISBN-13: 9781138658738 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 272 str.

Kathryn Batchelor; Sue-Ann Harding

Opis

This volume provides an innovative look at the body of translated work on the texts of Frantz Fanon over the last half-century and offers historical and multilingual perspectives in its reading of Fanon’s texts, situating them and their translations within specific contexts but also across fifteen different languages. The book employs a collaborative approach, featuring jointly authored chapters and introductory and closing chapters collectively written by all the authors. This comprehensive volume is essential reading for scholars in translation studies, critical race studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and African and African diaspora literature.

O autorze

Kathryn Batchelor is Associate Professor of Translation and Francophone Studies at　the University of Nottingham, UK. Her　research interests are in translation history, postcolonial translation theory, literary translation, and translation in or involving Africa. She is the author of Decolonizing Translation: Francophone African Novels in English Translation (2014 [2009]). Sue-Ann Harding is Assistant Professor of Translation Studies and Russian at Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar. Her research interests are in translation and social narrative theory especially in sites of conflict and narrative contestation. She is the author of Beslan: Six Stories of the Siege (2012) and several articles in leading journals.