Transmesis

1. Introduction: Transmesis and Postcolonial Reason
Thomas O. Beebee

Part One. Somantics

2. Herizons of Translation: Nicole Brossard
Thomas O. Beebee

3. Shoot the Transtraitor! The Translator as Homo Sacer
Thomas O. Beebee

Part Two. Unknown Language

4. Unknown Language and Radical Translation
Thomas O. Beebee

5. Transformulating Pagolak
Thomas O. Beebee

6. Translating Ptydepe
Thomas O. Beebee

Part Three. Conversion

7. Borges Translating Ibn Rushd Translating Aristotle
Thomas O. Beebee

8. Translation as Cultural Renewal in the Cartas Marruecas
Thomas O. Beebee

9. Transmutation, Transmigration, and Forgetting as Conversion: Milorad Pavić’s Dictionary of the Khazars

Thomas O. Beebee

Part Four. Postcolonial Dérivations

10. Abdelkébir Khatibi’s Love in Two Languages
Thomas O. Beebee

11. Faking Translation: Derivative Aboriginality in the Fiction of B. Wongar
Thomas O. Beebee

12. Conclusion: Ten Reasons Why Translators Should Read Fiction
Thomas O. Beebee

Keywords: Literature, Literary History, Linguistics, general, Literary Theory, Postcolonial/World Literature, Cultural Theory