Self-Translation and Power

Chapter 1 Introduction: Self-Translating, from Minorisation to Empowerment

Chapter 2 Babel in (Spite of) Belgium: Patterns of Self-Translation in a Bilingual Country

Chapter 3 The Three Powers of Self-Translating or Not Self-Translating: The Case of Contemporary Occitan Literature (1950–1980)

Chapter 4 Self-Translation as Testimony: Halide Edib Rewrites The Turkish Ordeal

Chapter 5 The Failure of Self-Translation in Catalan Literature

Chapter 6 The Power and Burden of Self-Translation: Representation of “Turkish Identity” in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul

Chapter 7 Self-Translation and Linguistic Reappropriation: Juan Gelman’s Dibaxu

Chapter 8 Self-Translating Between Minor and Major Languages: A Hospitable Approach in Bernardo Atxaga’s Obabakoak

Chapter 9 Collaborative Self-Translation in a Minority Language: Power Implications in the Process, the Actors and the Literary Systems Involved

Chapter 11 Beyond Self-Translation: Amara Lakhous and Translingual Writing as Case Study

Chapter 12 Writing Beyond the Border: Max Frisch, Dialect and Place in Swiss-German Literature