Derrida Translating

Kathryn Batchelor is Professor of Translation Studies at University College London. She is the author of Translation and Paratexts and Decolonizing Translation and has co-edited seven volumes including Translating Frantz Fanon across Continents and Languages and Translation-Trouvailles.

• AcknowledgementsPresentation of citations Introduction1. Derrida the Translator2. Translation, or Something Else3. Prowling4. Inheriting5. MourningIndex

“Batchelor’s book solves the problem of what translation scholars are to do with Derrida. Her solution is so obvious, so simple, that we have long been unable to see it: study not what he says about translation but how he translates. In doing that, Batchelor tends to turn Derrida’s translation strategies back on him: she “harries” the Derridean translated word in very much the same way Derrida harries the German word. For those of us who love Derrida and wish he had been a better translation theorist, Batchelor’s book is essential reading.” -Professor Douglas Robinson, The Chinese University of Hong Kong"A foremost theorist of translation, Kathryn Batchelor seeks to ‘reconceptualize literary and philosophical translation’ and to do that with the help of Derrida. She combs through his work very thoroughly looking less for what he says about translation than for what he does with it, for ‘Derrida translating’. With great acuity, she pulls out many ideas from this practice that deserve welcome in translation studies, to which this book makes a a major contribution, no less than to studies of Derrida."-Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California,US