Self-Translation

Anthony Cordingley is Lecturer in Translation at the Université de Paris 8, France.

• Notes on Contributors \ Introduction Anthony Cordingley \ PartI. Self-translation and Literary History \ 1. The Self-Translator asRewriter Susan Bassnett \ 2.On Mirrors, Dynamics & Self-Translations J.C. Santoyo \ 3. History and self-translation Jan Hokenson \ Part II. InterdisciplinaryPerspectives: Sociology, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy \ 4. A SociologicalGlance at Self-Translation and Self-Translators Rainier Grutman \ 5. The Passion ofSelf-Translation: A Masocritical Perspective Anthony Cordingley \ 6. Translating Philosophy: VilémFlusser's Practice of Multiple Self-Translation Rainer Guldin \ Part III.Post-colonialPerspectives \ 7. Translated otherness, self-translated in-betweenness: Hybridity as medium versus hybridityas object in Anglophone African writing Susanne Klinger \ 8.'Why bother with the original?': Self-translationand Scottish Gaelic poetry CorinnaKrause \ 9. Indigenizationand Opacity: Self-translation in the Okinawan/Ryukyuan writings of Takara Benand Medoruma Shun Mark Gibeau \ Part IV. Cosmopolitan Identities/Texts \ 10.Self-translation,Self-reflection, Self-derision: Samuel Beckett's Bilingual Humour Will Noonan 11. Writing in Translation: ANew Self in a Second Language Elin-Maria Evangelista \ 12.Betweenlanguages: metalinguistic elements in fiction and multilingual self-dialogue Aurelia Klimkiewicz \ Bibliography Index

Original, insightful and contradictory, these essays set up a site of debate where self-translation becomes far more than a marginal oddity: it is key to the configuration of Translation Studies. Self-translation is shown to be a question not of texts, but of what happens to the subject in the overlaps of cultures: it is translation of the self, and thus of a self in translation. The marginal oddity is henceforth the assumption of an original.