Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Translators and translating
6. Chapter 1. The self-translator as author 15
7. Chapter 2. Gertrude Stein and the paradox of translation 31
8. Chapter 3. The translator’s biography and the politics of representation 49
9. Chapter 4. The perils of polyglossia 67
10. Chapter 5. Transcultural conversations in practice 83
11. Chapter 6. Nancy Huston 97
12. Chapter 7. Traducteurs « privilégiés » 117
13. Chapter 8. Moving texts 139
14. Part II. Texts, paratexts and contexts
15. Chapter 9. The remaking of the translator’s reality 157
16. Chapter 10. Transfictions of Jack London 171
17. Chapter 11. La figure de l’infidèle 185
18. Chapter 12. Pretending not to be original 199
19. Chapter 13. La pseudo-traduction traduite 215
20. Chapter 14. Illustrations and the written text as reciprocal translation 233
21. Chapter 15. L’Homme invisible/The Invisible Man at the theatre 253
22. Chapter 16. Official facts and fictions 273
23. Notes on contributors 297
24. Index 303