Translation in African Contexts

Postcolonial Texts, Queer Sexuality, and Cosmopolitan Fluency
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-60635-321-9
Verlag: Kent State University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Translation Studies

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 uent 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mwangi, Evan Maina

Über Autor(innen)

Evan Maina Mwangi is associate professor of English and comparative literature at Northwestern University in Chicago. Fluent in English, Kiswahili, Gik? ?y?, and Sheng, he has also written Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality.