Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University and Leading Research Fellow at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His publications include the monographs Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature and Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire.Michelle Woods is Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz. She is the author of Kafka Translated: How Translators Have Shaped Our Reading of Kafka, Censoring Translation: Censorship, Theatre and the Politics of Translation, and Translating Milan Kundera, and she is the editor of Authorizing Translation.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductory SectionIs There a Translation in This Class?: A Crash Course in Translation Literacy, Brian James BaerBringing the Translator into the Classroom, or the Translator as Exegete, Michelle WoodsHow to Use This Volume, Brian James Baer and Michelle Woods Section I: Interrogating Key Cultural Texts: Cultural Dissonance and Stereoscopic ReadingChapter 1: How to Make the Best of a Bad Translation: The Case of René Marqués’s The Oxcart, J. Bret Maney Chapter 2: Reading Nearby: Teaching Sa’adat Hasan Manto’s "Toba Tek Singh," Akshya SaxenaChapter 3: The Knots in the Tapestry: Teaching Translation through Don Quijote, Teaching Don Quijote through Translation, Reyes LázaroChapter 4: A "Love Trap" and a Confucian Gentleman, Aili Mu Chapter 5: “Roman, Remember”: Translating Epic and Empire in Virgil's Aeneid, Neil W. Bernstein Chapter 6: Oral Literature from an Indian Vernacular: Translating Chouboli and the Cross-dressed Storyteller from Rajasthani, Christi A. Merrill Chapter 7: A Stereoscopic Reading of Celan’s "Death Fugue," Sarah Painitz Section II: Interrogating the Nation: Translation and/in National Languages and Literatures Chapter 8: Translation as Bridge or Border? An Intersectional Approach to National Belonging in Kate Chopin’s "La Belle Zoraïde," Javier de la Moreno-Corrales and Brian James Baer Chapter 9: In English Translation: Teaching a Latin American Literature, Denise Kripper Chapter 10: Reading Arabic Texts in English Translation: Lifting the "Veil," Mohammed Alzahrani Chapter 11: Border Crossings in Graciela Limon's Translingual In Search of Bernabé, Elena Foulis Chapter 12: Reading African Francophone Literature in Translation: Linguistic Innovation in an African Context, Kathryn Batchelor Chapter 13: Packaging Mexico: Azuela’s Los de abajo in English Translation, Daryl R. Hague Section III: Interrogating the World: Transnational Reading and Translingual Writing Chapter 14: Toward a Transterritorial Pedagogy: Deliberative Inquiry into Language, Identity and Difference, Oana Popescu-Sandu and Sukanya GuptaChapter 15: Translation and Close Reading in the General Education Seminar, Cassio de OliveiraChapter 16: "Every Film Is a Foreign Film:" Teaching Multilingual Cinema through Translation, Richard WattsChapter 17: Lost and Found in Translation: Grounding Comparative Cultural Studies, Alan ReidChapter 18: World Drama in Translation: In the Classroom and on the Stage, Richard Jones Chapter 19: Coping with Misinterpretation in the World Literature Classroom, Anastasia Lakhtikova Chapter 20 Race in Translation: An Intersectional Reading of the 1001 Nights in the World Literature Classroom, Corine TachtirisChapter 21: Framed: Queer Life Writing in Translation, Brian James BaerSection IV: Teaching Literature and Culture Through Translation Chapter 22: Slow Reading and Empathy: Accessing Early America through Transcription and Translation, Julie A. Fisher Chapter 23: Translating the Survey of Medieval and Renaissance French Literature, Gina L. Greco Chapter 24: Introducing French Literature through Translation, Jena Whitaker Chapter 25: Localizing Theory in a Spanish-Language Translation Program, María Luisa Pérez Bernardo Index

This is a tremendously useful addition to the bookshelf and toolkit of literature professors who teach in a global perspective—and for those who do not, it offers an excellent account of why they should. Dealing with texts from a wide variety of cultures, contributors show how attending to translation can enhance educational experience in real classroom settings.David Bellos, Princeton University, USA

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University and Leading Research Fellow at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His publications include the monographs Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature and Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire.Michelle Woods is Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz. She is the author of Kafka Translated: How Translators Have Shaped Our Reading of Kafka, Censoring Translation: Censorship, Theatre and the Politics of Translation, and Translating Milan Kundera, and she is the editor of Authorizing Translation.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductory SectionIs There a Translation in This Class?: A Crash Course in Translation Literacy, Brian James BaerBringing the Translator into the Classroom, or the Translator as Exegete, Michelle WoodsHow to Use This Volume, Brian James Baer and Michelle Woods Section I: Interrogating Key Cultural Texts: Cultural Dissonance and Stereoscopic ReadingChapter 1: How to Make the Best of a Bad Translation: The Case of René Marqués’s The Oxcart, J. Bret Maney Chapter 2: Reading Nearby: Teaching Sa’adat Hasan Manto’s "Toba Tek Singh," Akshya SaxenaChapter 3: The Knots in the Tapestry: Teaching Translation through Don Quijote, Teaching Don Quijote through Translation, Reyes LázaroChapter 4: A "Love Trap" and a Confucian Gentleman, Aili Mu Chapter 5: “Roman, Remember”: Translating Epic and Empire in Virgil's Aeneid, Neil W. Bernstein Chapter 6: Oral Literature from an Indian Vernacular: Translating Chouboli and the Cross-dressed Storyteller from Rajasthani, Christi A. Merrill Chapter 7: A Stereoscopic Reading of Celan’s "Death Fugue," Sarah Painitz Section II: Interrogating the Nation: Translation and/in National Languages and Literatures Chapter 8: Translation as Bridge or Border? An Intersectional Approach to National Belonging in Kate Chopin’s "La Belle Zoraïde," Javier de la Moreno-Corrales and Brian James Baer Chapter 9: In English Translation: Teaching a Latin American Literature, Denise Kripper Chapter 10: Reading Arabic Texts in English Translation: Lifting the "Veil," Mohammed Alzahrani Chapter 11: Border Crossings in Graciela Limon's Translingual In Search of Bernabé, Elena Foulis Chapter 12: Reading African Francophone Literature in Translation: Linguistic Innovation in an African Context, Kathryn Batchelor Chapter 13: Packaging Mexico: Azuela’s Los de abajo in English Translation, Daryl R. Hague Section III: Interrogating the World: Transnational Reading and Translingual Writing Chapter 14: Toward a Transterritorial Pedagogy: Deliberative Inquiry into Language, Identity and Difference, Oana Popescu-Sandu and Sukanya GuptaChapter 15: Translation and Close Reading in the General Education Seminar, Cassio de OliveiraChapter 16: "Every Film Is a Foreign Film:" Teaching Multilingual Cinema through Translation, Richard WattsChapter 17: Lost and Found in Translation: Grounding Comparative Cultural Studies, Alan ReidChapter 18: World Drama in Translation: In the Classroom and on the Stage, Richard Jones Chapter 19: Coping with Misinterpretation in the World Literature Classroom, Anastasia Lakhtikova Chapter 20 Race in Translation: An Intersectional Reading of the 1001 Nights in the World Literature Classroom, Corine TachtirisChapter 21: Framed: Queer Life Writing in Translation, Brian James BaerSection IV: Teaching Literature and Culture Through Translation Chapter 22: Slow Reading and Empathy: Accessing Early America through Transcription and Translation, Julie A. Fisher Chapter 23: Translating the Survey of Medieval and Renaissance French Literature, Gina L. Greco Chapter 24: Introducing French Literature through Translation, Jena Whitaker Chapter 25: Localizing Theory in a Spanish-Language Translation Program, María Luisa Pérez Bernardo Index

This is a tremendously useful addition to the bookshelf and toolkit of literature professors who teach in a global perspective—and for those who do not, it offers an excellent account of why they should. Dealing with texts from a wide variety of cultures, contributors show how attending to translation can enhance educational experience in real classroom settings.David Bellos, Princeton University, USA

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University and Leading Research Fellow at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His publications include the monographs Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature and Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire.Michelle Woods is Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz. She is the author of Kafka Translated: How Translators Have Shaped Our Reading of Kafka, Censoring Translation: Censorship, Theatre and the Politics of Translation, and Translating Milan Kundera, and she is the editor of Authorizing Translation.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductory SectionIs There a Translation in This Class?: A Crash Course in Translation Literacy, Brian James BaerBringing the Translator into the Classroom, or the Translator as Exegete, Michelle WoodsHow to Use This Volume, Brian James Baer and Michelle Woods Section I: Interrogating Key Cultural Texts: Cultural Dissonance and Stereoscopic ReadingChapter 1: How to Make the Best of a Bad Translation: The Case of René Marqués’s The Oxcart, J. Bret Maney Chapter 2: Reading Nearby: Teaching Sa’adat Hasan Manto’s "Toba Tek Singh," Akshya SaxenaChapter 3: The Knots in the Tapestry: Teaching Translation through Don Quijote, Teaching Don Quijote through Translation, Reyes LázaroChapter 4: A "Love Trap" and a Confucian Gentleman, Aili Mu Chapter 5: “Roman, Remember”: Translating Epic and Empire in Virgil's Aeneid, Neil W. Bernstein Chapter 6: Oral Literature from an Indian Vernacular: Translating Chouboli and the Cross-dressed Storyteller from Rajasthani, Christi A. Merrill Chapter 7: A Stereoscopic Reading of Celan’s "Death Fugue," Sarah Painitz Section II: Interrogating the Nation: Translation and/in National Languages and Literatures Chapter 8: Translation as Bridge or Border? An Intersectional Approach to National Belonging in Kate Chopin’s "La Belle Zoraïde," Javier de la Moreno-Corrales and Brian James Baer Chapter 9: In English Translation: Teaching a Latin American Literature, Denise Kripper Chapter 10: Reading Arabic Texts in English Translation: Lifting the "Veil," Mohammed Alzahrani Chapter 11: Border Crossings in Graciela Limon's Translingual In Search of Bernabé, Elena Foulis Chapter 12: Reading African Francophone Literature in Translation: Linguistic Innovation in an African Context, Kathryn Batchelor Chapter 13: Packaging Mexico: Azuela’s Los de abajo in English Translation, Daryl R. Hague Section III: Interrogating the World: Transnational Reading and Translingual Writing Chapter 14: Toward a Transterritorial Pedagogy: Deliberative Inquiry into Language, Identity and Difference, Oana Popescu-Sandu and Sukanya GuptaChapter 15: Translation and Close Reading in the General Education Seminar, Cassio de OliveiraChapter 16: "Every Film Is a Foreign Film:" Teaching Multilingual Cinema through Translation, Richard WattsChapter 17: Lost and Found in Translation: Grounding Comparative Cultural Studies, Alan ReidChapter 18: World Drama in Translation: In the Classroom and on the Stage, Richard Jones Chapter 19: Coping with Misinterpretation in the World Literature Classroom, Anastasia Lakhtikova Chapter 20 Race in Translation: An Intersectional Reading of the 1001 Nights in the World Literature Classroom, Corine TachtirisChapter 21: Framed: Queer Life Writing in Translation, Brian James BaerSection IV: Teaching Literature and Culture Through Translation Chapter 22: Slow Reading and Empathy: Accessing Early America through Transcription and Translation, Julie A. Fisher Chapter 23: Translating the Survey of Medieval and Renaissance French Literature, Gina L. Greco Chapter 24: Introducing French Literature through Translation, Jena Whitaker Chapter 25: Localizing Theory in a Spanish-Language Translation Program, María Luisa Pérez Bernardo Index

This is a tremendously useful addition to the bookshelf and toolkit of literature professors who teach in a global perspective—and for those who do not, it offers an excellent account of why they should. Dealing with texts from a wide variety of cultures, contributors show how attending to translation can enhance educational experience in real classroom settings.David Bellos, Princeton University, USA