African Perspectives on Literary Translation

Foreword Mona Baker Introduction Ella Wehrmeyer and Judith Inggs Part 1: Methodological and sociohistorical overview 1. Translating Africa Paul Bandia 2. The ethical in literary translation Libby Meintjes 3. Broadening latitudes: mapping a sociological history of literary translation into Swahili Serena Talento Part 2: Product-oriented literary translation 4. Crossing continents: a critical discourse analytical study of the translation of South African Young Adult texts into French and German Judith Inggs 5. The translation of diasporic African Indian autobiographical voices into the languages of Spain: Achmat Dangor (1948-) and Moyez G. Vassanji (1950-) Juan Miguel Zarandona 6. Mapping culture in literary translation Ella Wehrmeyer 7. Self-translation of an Afrikaans short story by SJ Naude Eleanor Cornelius and George de Bruin 8. Translating emotion conceptual metaphors: a case of Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom in isiXhosa Bulelwa Nokele 9. Translating linguistic hybridity and indigenous words in Mia Couto's novel A varanda do frangipani Celina Cachucho 10. Proverb translation to the realm of the story in Chinua Achebe's novels Amechi N. Akwanya Part 3: Reception and process studies 11. Translating the neighbour: contemporary Maghrebi literature in Spain Monica Rius-Pinies 12. Women as protagonists in West African plays translated in Cuba Rocio Anguiano Perez 13. Who's the boss? Power relations between agents in the literary translation process Ilse Feinauer and Amanda Lourens 14. Translating Une Vie de Boy: a Bourdieusian study of agency in literary translation Felix Awung Conclusion 15. A curriculum for literary translation in a multilingual South African classroom Christopher Fotheringham