Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Twenty Theses on Translations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Translation after 9/11: Mistranslating the Art of War 12
7. Part One. Translating Humanism
8. 2. The Human in the Humanities 25
9. 3. Global Translatio: The “Invention” of Comparative Literature, Istanbul, 1933 41
10. 4. Saidian Humanism 65
11. Part Two. The Politics of Untranslatability
12. 5. Nothing Is Translatable 85
13. 6. “Untranslatable” Algeria: The Politics of Linguicide 94
14. 7. Plurilingual Dogma: Translation by Numbers 109
15. Part Three. Language Wars
16. 8. Balkan Babel: Language Zones, Military Zones 129
17. 9. War and Speech 139
18. 10. The Language of Damaged Experience 149
19. 11. CNN Creole: Trademark Literacy and Global Language Travel 160
20. 12. Condé's Créolité in Literary History 178
21. Part Four. Technologies of Translation
22. 13. Nature into Data 193
23. 14. Translation with No Original: Scandals of Textual Reproduction 210
24. 15. Everything Is Translatable 226
25. Conclusion 241
26. 16. A New Comparative Literature 243
27. Notes 253
28. Index 287