Notes on the Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Transnational Literatures and Cultures in/and Translation 1
5. Contributors 1
6. FROM TRANSNATIONAL TO TRANSLATIONAL
7. Translational Migrations: Novel Homelands in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane 19
8. Theorizing Women’s Transnational Literatures: Shaping New Female Identities in Europe through Writing and Translation 47
9. Crossing Borders in Perilous Zones: Labors of Transport and Translation in Women Writers of Exile 79
10. Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquidity and Transnational Women’s Literature: Nancy Huston and Assia Djebar as Case Studies 95
11. Traveling Theory as Theory in Translation: Transnational and Transgenerational Perspectives 117
12. READING ACROSS BORDERS
13. Translation into Dance: Adaptation and Transnational Hellenism in Balanchine’s Apollo 139
14. Stories from Elsewhere: The City as a Transnational Space in Doris Lessing’s Fiction 155
15. The Mobile Imagination in European Women’s Writing: Parallels Between Modern and Postmodern Times 171
16. Romanian Women’s Migration: Online Versus Offline Stories 193
17. From Traveling Memoir to Nomadic Narrative in Kapka Kassabova’s Street Without a Name and Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story 207
18. Through the Looking-Glass: On Recurring Motifs and Devices in the Prose of Dubravka Ugrešić 225
19. TRANSNATIONAL IN TRANSLATION
20. It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing 239
21. Translating Folktales: From National to Transnational 257
22. Transnational Rivalry and Consecration: Croatian and Serbian Writers in Translation 281
23. China Comes to Warsaw or Warsaw Comes to China: Melech Ravitch’s Travel Poems and Journals 303
24. Notes on the Contributors 329
25. Index 336