Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University, USA. He is the author of Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011, and the editor or co-editor of five books, including Russian Writers on Translation. An Anthology (co-edited with Natalia Olshanskaya, 2013). He is the Founding Editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionBorn in TranslationChapter OneReading between, Reading among: Poet-Translators in the Age of the DecembristsChapter TwoThe Translator as Forger: (Mis)Translating Empire in Lermontov’s Hero of Our Time and Roziner’s A Certain FinkelmeyerChapter ThreeThe Boy Who Cried “Volk”!: (Mis)Translating the Nation in Dostoevsky’s “Peasant Marei” and Iskander’s “Pshada”Chapter FourRe-figuring Translation: Translator-heroines in Russian Women’s WritingChapter FiveImitatio: Translation and the Making of Soviet SubjectsChapter SixReading Wilde in Moscow, or le plus ça change: Translations of Western Gay Literature in Post-Soviet RussiaChapter SevenUnpacking Daniel Stein, or Where Post-Soviet Meets PostmodernBibliographyIndex

This book is a valuable, original and significant contribution to the history of Russian translation and takes up an entirely different, refreshing perspective ... Baer has created a convincing, well-researched, unique and engaging study ... undoubtedly interesting and inspiring not only to Slavic scholars but also to any reader who is interested in a different and innovative approach to the significance of translation.

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University, USA. He is the author of Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011, and the editor or co-editor of five books, including Russian Writers on Translation. An Anthology (co-edited with Natalia Olshanskaya, 2013). He is the Founding Editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionBorn in TranslationChapter OneReading between, Reading among: Poet-Translators in the Age of the DecembristsChapter TwoThe Translator as Forger: (Mis)Translating Empire in Lermontov’s Hero of Our Time and Roziner’s A Certain FinkelmeyerChapter ThreeThe Boy Who Cried “Volk”!: (Mis)Translating the Nation in Dostoevsky’s “Peasant Marei” and Iskander’s “Pshada”Chapter FourRe-figuring Translation: Translator-heroines in Russian Women’s WritingChapter FiveImitatio: Translation and the Making of Soviet SubjectsChapter SixReading Wilde in Moscow, or le plus ça change: Translations of Western Gay Literature in Post-Soviet RussiaChapter SevenUnpacking Daniel Stein, or Where Post-Soviet Meets PostmodernBibliographyIndex

This book is a valuable, original and significant contribution to the history of Russian translation and takes up an entirely different, refreshing perspective ... Baer has created a convincing, well-researched, unique and engaging study ... undoubtedly interesting and inspiring not only to Slavic scholars but also to any reader who is interested in a different and innovative approach to the significance of translation.

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian and Translation Studies at Kent State University, USA. He is the author of Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011, and the editor or co-editor of five books, including Russian Writers on Translation. An Anthology (co-edited with Natalia Olshanskaya, 2013). He is the Founding Editor of the journal Translation and Interpreting Studies.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionBorn in TranslationChapter OneReading between, Reading among: Poet-Translators in the Age of the DecembristsChapter TwoThe Translator as Forger: (Mis)Translating Empire in Lermontov’s Hero of Our Time and Roziner’s A Certain FinkelmeyerChapter ThreeThe Boy Who Cried “Volk”!: (Mis)Translating the Nation in Dostoevsky’s “Peasant Marei” and Iskander’s “Pshada”Chapter FourRe-figuring Translation: Translator-heroines in Russian Women’s WritingChapter FiveImitatio: Translation and the Making of Soviet SubjectsChapter SixReading Wilde in Moscow, or le plus ça change: Translations of Western Gay Literature in Post-Soviet RussiaChapter SevenUnpacking Daniel Stein, or Where Post-Soviet Meets PostmodernBibliographyIndex

This book is a valuable, original and significant contribution to the history of Russian translation and takes up an entirely different, refreshing perspective ... Baer has created a convincing, well-researched, unique and engaging study ... undoubtedly interesting and inspiring not only to Slavic scholars but also to any reader who is interested in a different and innovative approach to the significance of translation.