Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages

Kathryn Batchelor is Associate Professor of Translation and Francophone Studies at　the University of Nottingham, UK. Her　research interests are in translation history, postcolonial translation theory, literary translation, and translation in or involving Africa. She is the author of Decolonizing Translation: Francophone African Novels in English Translation (2014 [2009]). Sue-Ann Harding is Assistant Professor of Translation Studies and Russian at Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar. Her research interests are in translation and social narrative theory especially in sites of conflict and narrative contestation. She is the author of Beslan: Six Stories of the Siege (2012) and several articles in leading journals.

• Introduction: Histoire croisée, Microhistory and Translation HistoryKathryn Batchelor1. Translating Resistance: Fanon and Radical Italy, 1960-1970Neelam Srivastava2. The Translation of Les Damnés de la terre into English: Exploring Irish ConnectionsKathryn Batchelor3. Fanon in the East African Experience: Between English and Swahili TranslationsAlamin Mazrui4. Fanon in Arabic: Tracks and TracesSue-Ann Harding 5. Voice and Visibility: Fanon in the Persian ContextFarzaneh Farahzad6. Fanon in the ‘Second World’: Yugoslavia, Poland and the Soviet UnionMirna Radin Sabadoš, Dorota Gołuch and Sue-Ann Harding7. The Contexts of the German Translation of Frantz Fanon’s Les Damnés de la terreMaike Oergel8. Fanon in Scandinavia: Words and ActionsChristina Kullberg