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Translation in African contexts : postcolonial texts, queer sexuality, and cosmopolitan fluency / Evan Maina Mwangi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mwangi, Evan, author.
- Series:
- Translation studies ; Volume 10.
- Translation Studies ; Volume 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African literature--Translations into English--History and criticism.
- African literature.
- African literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Translating and interpreting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Author Evan Maina Mwangi explores the intersection of translation, sexuality, and cosmopolitan ethics in African literature. Usually seen as the preserve of literature published by Euro-American metropolitan outlets for Western consumption, cultural translation is also a recurrent theme in postcolonial African texts produced primarily for local circulation and sometimes in African languages. Mwangi illustrates how such texts allude to various forms of translation to depict the ethical relations to foreigners and the powerless, including sexual minorities. He also explains the popularity of fluent models of translation in African literature, regardless of the energetic critique of such models by Western-based postcolonial theorists. While bringing to the foreground texts that have received little critical attention in African literary studies, Translation in African Contexts engages a wide range of foundational and postcolonial translation theorists. It considers a rich variety of works, including East African translations of Shakespeare, writings by Ng?g? wa Thiong'o and Gakaara wa Wanja?, a popular novel by Charles Mangua, and a stage adaptation by the Tanzanian playwright Amandina Lihamba, among others.
- Contents:
- (M)othered tongues, post-Afrocentric translations
- Against monolingualism
- Mother tongue and the abject mother
- Illusions of cultural purity
- A gendered adaptation
- Transmodern poetics
- Domesticating the queer in Shakespeare
- Language of languages: an attempt to conclude.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781631012952
- 1631012959
- 9781631012945
- 1631012940
- OCLC:
- 965120608
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