The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
1. Introduction: translation and activism in the time of the now
PART I: Theorising translation and activism
	2. Theory, practice, activism: Gramsci as a translation theorist
	3. Activist translation, alliances, and performativity: translating Judith Butler’s Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly into Italian
	4. Farhadpour, prismatically translated: philosophical prose and the activist agenda
	Thought/translation
	5. Translating Marx in Japan: Yoshimoto Taka’aki and Japanese Marxism
	Contemporary times and Marx
PART II: The interpreter as activist
	6. Okyeame poma: exploring the multimodality of translation in precolonial African contexts
	7. Translator, native informant, fixer: activism and translation in Mandate Palestine
	8. Translation in the war-zone: the Gaza Strip as case study
PART III: The translator as activist
	9. Translating mourning walls: Aleppo’s last words
	10. Resistance, activism and marronage in Paul Bowles’s translations of the oral stories of Tangier
	11. Translators as organic intellectuals: translational activism in pre-revolutionary Iran
	12. Translating for Le Monde diplomatique en español: disciplinary norms and activist agendas
PART IV: Bearing witness
	13. Written on the heart, in broken English
	14. Writing as hospitality: translating the fragment in Arabic and English
	15. Joint authorship and preface-writing practices as translation in post- ‘Years of Lead’ Morocco
	16. Activist narratives: Latin American testimonies in translation
PART V: Translation and human rights
	17. The right not to have an interpreter in criminal trials: the Irish language as a case study
	18. The right to understand and to be understood: urban activism and US migrants’ access to interpreters
	19. Feminism in translation: reframing human rights law through transnational Islamic feminist networks
PART VI: Translating the vernacular
	20. Against a single African literary translation theory
	21. The single most translated short story in the history of African writing: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the Jalada writers’ collective
	22. The dialectics of dissent in postcolonial India: Vrishchik (1969–1973)
	23. Bengali Dalit discourse as translational activism: studying a Dalit autobiography
PART VII: Translation, migration, refugees
	24. What is asylum? Translation, trauma, and institutional visibility
	25. Citation and recitation: linguistic legacies and the politics of translation in the Sahrawi refugee context
	26. Resistant recipes: food, gender and translation in migrant and refugee narratives
PART VIII: Translation and revolution
	27. Late-Qing translation (1840–1911) and the political activism of Chinese evolutionism
	28. ‘The pen is mightier than the sword’: exploring the ‘warrior’ Lu Xun from 1903 to 1936
	29. The political modes of translation in Iran: national words, right sentences, class paragraphs
	30. Civil resistance through online activist translation in Taiwan’s Sunflower Student Movement
	31. Afterword: postcolonialism, activism, and translation
Index