Transfiction

1. Going fictional! Translators and interpreters in literature and film: An introduction (by Kaindl, Klaus); 2. A Hitchhiker's Guide to ...: What to expect and where to start from (by Spitzl, Karlheinz); 3. Episode I. Entering theoretical territories; 4. The power of fiction as theory: Some exemplary lessons on translation from Borges's stories (by Arrojo, Rosemary); 5. Language, essence, and silence: Fictional Translators in Peter Kosminsky's The Promise (by Al-Mahadin, Salam); 6. Walter Benjamin revisited: A literary reading in Todd Hasak-Lowy's short story "The Task of this Translator" (by Apostolou, Fotini); 7. Of dragons and translators: Foreignness as a principle of life: Yoko Tawada's "St. George and the Translator" (by Kaindl, Klaus); 8. Taking care of the stars: Interpreted interaction in Amadou Hampate Ba's L'etrange destin de Wangrin (by Spitzl, Karlheinz); 9. Reaching a dead-end - and then?: Jacques Gelats Le Traducteur and Le Traducteur Amoureux (by Ben-Ari, Nitsa); 10. Episode II. Travelling through sociocultural space; 11. From La dolce vita to La vita agra: The image of the Italian literary translator as an illusory, rebellious and precarious intellectual (by Nadiani, Giovanni); 12. From a faltering bystander to a spiritual leader: Re-thinking the role of translators in Russia (by Olshanskaya, Natalia); 13. Interpreting Daniel Stein: Or what happens when fictional translators get translated (by Baer, Brian James); 14. Fictional translators in Quebec novels (by Godbout, Patricia); 15. Pseudotranslations in 18th century France (by Kupsch-Losereit, Sigrid); 16. Episode III. Experiencing agency and action; 17. On the (in)fidelity of (fictional) interpreters (by Kurz, Ingrid); 18. Interpreting conflict: Memories of an interpreter (by Todorova, Marija); 19. Truth in translation: Interpreters' subjectivity in the Truth and Reconciliation Hearings in South Africa (by Leal, Alice); 20. Wittnessing, remembering, translating: Translation and translator figures in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated and Anne Michael's Fugitive Pieces (by Strumper-Krobb, Sabine); 21. Translating the past, negotiating the self: Discursive resistance in Elisabeth Reichart's Komm uber den See (by Resch, Renate); 22. The apocalyptical interpreter and the end of Europe: Alain Fleischer's Prolongations (by Andres, Dorte); 23. Episode IV. Carrying function into effect; 24. Willa Muir: The "factional translator". How Muir self-fictionalized her translations of Kafka's work (by Woods, Michelle); 25. Translation as a source of humor: Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated/Alles ist erleuchtet (by Kolb, Waltraud); 26. Neither is a translator, unless they're transauthers: Confusion and (re-)gendering in feminist fiction/translation (by Beuren, Daniela); 27. Magical mediation: Translation/interpreting and gender in the narrative world of Harry Potter (by Casarini, Alice); 28. Future imperfect: Translation and translators in science-fiction novels (by Wozniak, Monika); 29. Fiction as a catalyst: Some afterthoughts (by Spitzl, Karlheinz); 30. Name index; 31. Subject index