Self-Translation and Power

1. Introduction: Self-Translating, from Minorisation to Empowerment
Olga Castro, Sergi Mainer, Svetlana Page

Part I. Hegemony and Resistance

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

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

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

Mehtap Ozdemir

Part II. Self-Minorisation and Self-Censorship

5. The Failure of Self-Translation in Catalan Literature
Josep Miquel Ramis

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

Arzu Akbatur

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

Brandon Rigby

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

Harriet Hulme

Part III. Collaboration, Hybridisation and Invisibility

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

10. Collaborative Self-Translation as a Catastrophe: The Case of Vadim Kozovoï in French
Julia Holter

11. Beyond Self-Translation: Amara Lakhous and Translingual Writing as Case Study
Rita Wilson

12. Writing Beyond the Border: Max Frisch, Dialect and Place in Swiss-German Literature
Marc Cesar Rickenbach

Keywords: Linguistics, Translation, European History, Translation Studies, Romance Languages, Language and Literature, Intercultural Communication