Relocation of Culture

Simona Bertacco is Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities and Director of Graduate Studies in the Humanities at the University of Louisville, USA. Her research focuses on postcolonial literatures in English, with special attention to issues of translation, gender, and poetics. Her most recent publications include: Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures (2014) and the special issues of The New Centennial Review: Translation and the Global Humanities (2016) and Altre Modernitá: Disrespected Literatures: Reversals of Linguistic Oppression (2019).Nicoletta Vallorani is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Milan, Italy. Her lines of research mostly combine the fields of visual studies and postcolonial studies, with references to film studies. She has recently published on migration in the Mediterranean Sea (Nessun Kurtz: Cuore di tenebra e le parole dell’Occidente, 2017; Forms of Loss: Dead Bodies and Other Objects, 2018), the intersections between crime fiction and migration studies (Postcolonial Crime, 2014), and the literary representations of the urban margins (Millennium London: Of Other Spaces and the Metropolis, 2012).

• Foreword by Homi K. BhabhaPart 1 Translation as MigrationIntroduction: The Relocation of Culture0.1 The Location and Relocation of Culture0.2 Disciplinary Border-Crossings0.3 Translation as Migration0.4 Migration as Translation0.5 Two Authors, One Book1 Translation and Worldly Knowledge1.1 Translation as Worldly Knowledge1.2 Translation as Migration: A New Schema1.3 A Mediterranean Via Crucis1.4 Translating Right(s) at Entry-Point2 The Postcolonial Lesson 2.1 Translation and Postcolonial Literature2.2 The Accent in Postcolonial Writing2.3 Born Creole: A Caribbean Vocabulary for Reading2.4 Accented ReadingPart 2 Migration as Translation3 Lost in Migration: Navigating the Mediterranean Sea3.1 Mediterranean Bloodties3.2 Making Sense of the Unknown3.3 The “Project of Unforgetting”3.4 The Issue of Respect4 The Gaze of Medusa 4.1 “I don’t want to go to Europe”4.2 Pics and other objects4.3 Familiarizing/defamiliarizing4.4 Their Own Gaze 5 Conclusion: Melting Wor(l)ds5.1 Translation on the Border/Translation as Bordering5.2 Translation as the Relocation of Culture5.3 Translation Literacy and Global CitizenshipAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex

The book successfully articulates translation as a vital principle of our cultural life and as an act of locating ourselves in the world by acknowledging at the same time the plurality of our languages and the complexities of our migratory processes.