Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages

This volume provides an innovative look at the body of translated work on the texts of Frantz Fanon over the last half-century and offers historical and multilingual perspectives in its reading of Fanon's texts, situating them and their translations within specific contexts but also across fifteen different languages.

List of contents

Introduction: Histoire croisée, Microhistory and Translation History
Kathryn Batchelor
1. Translating Resistance: Fanon and Radical Italy, 1960-1970
Neelam Srivastava
2. The Translation of Les Damnés de la terre into English: Exploring Irish Connections
Kathryn Batchelor
3. Fanon in the East African Experience: Between English and Swahili Translations
Alamin Mazrui
4. Fanon in Arabic: Tracks and Traces
Sue-Ann Harding
5. Voice and Visibility: Fanon in the Persian Context
Farzaneh Farahzad
6. Fanon in the 'Second World': Yugoslavia, Poland and the Soviet Union
Mirna Radin Sabadoš, Dorota Göuch and Sue-Ann Harding
7. The Contexts of the German Translation of Frantz Fanon's Les Damnés de la terre
Maike Oergel
8. Fanon in Scandinavia: Words and Actions
Christina Kullberg

About the author

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.

Summary

This volume provides an innovative look at the body of translated work on the texts of Frantz Fanon over the last half-century and offers historical and multilingual perspectives in its reading of Fanon’s texts, situating them and their translations within specific contexts but also across fifteen different languages.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn (University of Nottingham Batchelor, Kathryn Harding Batchelor
• Assisted by: Kathryn Batchelor (Editor), Batchelor Kathryn (Editor), Sue-Ann Harding (Editor), Harding Sue-Ann (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780367365738
• ISBN: 978-0-367-36573-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies; Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Ethnic Studies, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, Translation & interpretation, Literature: history & criticism, Language: reference and general, Regional Geography, Literature: history and criticism, Translation and interpretation