Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism

Rebecca Ruth Gould is the author of Writers and Rebels: The Literatures of Insurgency in the Caucasus (2016). Her translations include After Tomorrow the Days Disappear (2016), and Prose of the Mountains (2015). She is Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literature at the University of Birmingham. Kayvan Tahmasebian is a Marie-Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He is a poet, critic, and the author of Isfahan’s Mold (Goman, 2016), Lecture on Fear and Other Poems (Radical Paper Press, 2019), and co-translator of High Tide of the Eyes: Poems by Bijan Elahi (The Operating System, 2019).

• AcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors1. ‘Introduction: Translation and Activism in the Time of the Now’I. Theorising Translation and Activism2. ‘Theory, Practice, Activism: Gramsci as a Translation Theorist’3. ‘Activist Translation, Alliances and Performativity: Translating Judith Butler’s Notes toward a Performative Theory of Assembly into Italian’4. ‘Farhadpour, Prismatically Translated: Philosophical Prose and the Activist Agenda’ and ‘Morad Farhadpour: A Biographical Sketch’ ; ‘Thought/Translation,’5. ‘Translating Marx in Japan: Yoshimoto Taka’aki and Japanese Marxism’;Yoshimoto Taka’aki, from ‘Contemporary Times and Marx’II. The Interpreter as Activist6. ‘Okyeame Poma: Exploring the Multimodality of Translation in Precolonial African Contexts’7. ‘Translator, Native Informant, Fixer: Activism and Translation in Mandate Palestine’8. ‘Translation in the War-Zone: The Gaza Strip as Case Study’III. The Translator as Activist9. ‘Translating Mourning Walls: Aleppo’s Last Words’10. ‘Resistance, Activism and Marronage in Paul Bowles’s Translations of the Oral Stories of Tangier’11. ‘Translators as Organic Intellectuals: Translational Activism in Pre-Revolutionary Iran’ 12. ‘Translating for Le Monde diplomatique en español: Disciplinary Norms and Activist Agendas’IV. Bearing Witness13. ‘Written on the Heart, in Broken English’14. ‘Writing as Hospitality: Translating the Fragmentary in Arabic and English’15. ‘Joint Authorship and Preface Writing Practices as Translation in post-‘Years of Lead’ Morocco’16. ‘Activist Narratives: Latin American Testimonies in Translation’ V. Translation and Human Rights17. ‘The Right not to Have an Interpreter in Criminal Trials: The Irish Language as a Case Study’18. ‘The Right to Understand and to be Understood: Urban Activism and US Migrants’ Access to Interpreters’19. ‘Feminism in Translation: Reframing Human Rights Law Through Transnational Islamic Feminist Networks’VI. Translating the Vernacular20. ‘Against a Single African Literary Translation Theory’21. ‘The Single Most Translated Short Story in the History of African Writing: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the Jalada Writers Collective’22. ‘The Dialectics of Dissent in Postcolonial India: Vrishchik (1969-73)’ 23. ‘Bengali Dalit Discourse as Translational Activism: Studying a Dalit Autobiography’VII. Translation, Migration, Refugees24. ‘What Is Asylum? Translation, Trauma, and Institutional Visibility’25.‘Citation and Recitation: Linguistic Legacies and the Politics of Translation in the Sahrawi Refugee Context’26. ‘Resistant Recipes: Food, Gender and Translation in Migrant and Refugee Narratives’ VIII. Translation and Revolution27.‘Late-Qing Translation (1840-1911) and the Political Activism of Chinese Evolutionism’28. ‘‘The Pen is Mightier than the Sword’: Exploring the ‘Warrior’ Lu Xun’29. ‘The Political Modes of Translation in Iran: National Words, Right Sentences, Class Paragraphs’ 30. ‘Civil Resistance through Online Activist Translation in Taiwan’s Sunflower Student Movement’31. ‘Afterword: Postcolonialism, Activism, and Translation’Index

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