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Finalist for the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Essay category From award-winning, internationally known scholar and translator Ilan Stavans comes On Self-Translation, a collection of essays and conversations on language in its multifaceted forms. Stavans discusses the way syntax is being restructured by texting and other technologies. He examines how the alphabet itself is being forgotten by the young, how finger snapping has taken on a new meaning, how the use of ellipses has lapsed, and how autocorrect is shaping the way we communicate. In an incisive meditation, he shows how translating one's own work reinvents oneself in another tongue. The volume includes tête-à-têtes with Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Wilbur and short-fiction master Lydia Davis, as well as dialogues on silence, multilingualism, poetry, and the durability of the classics. Stavans's explorations cover Spanish, English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and the hybrid lexicon of Spanglish. He muses on the meaning of foreignness and on living and dying in different languages. Among his primary concerns are the role and history of dictionaries and the extent to which the authority of language academies is less a reality than a delusion. He concludes with renditions into Spanglish of portions of Hamlet, Don Quixote, and The Little Prince. The wide range of themes and engaging yet informed style confirm Stavans's status, in the words of the Washington Post, as "Latin America's liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast."

Psycholinguistics --- Translation science --- Self-translation. --- Auto-translation (Self-translation) --- Translating and interpreting

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The Bilingual Muse analyzes the work of seven Russian poets who translated their own poems into English, French, German, or Italian. Investigating the parallel versions of self-translated poetic texts by Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky, Andrey Gritsman, Katia Kapovich, Marina Tsvetaeva, Wassily Kandinsky, and Elizaveta Kul’man, Adrian Wanner considers how verbal creativity functions in different languages, the conundrum of translation, and the vagaries of bilingual identities. Wanner argues that the perceived marginality of self-translation stems from a romantic privileging of the mother tongue and the original text. The unprecedented recent dispersion of Russian speakers over three continents has led to the emergence of a new generation of diasporic Russians who provide a more receptive milieu for multilingual creativity.

Russian poetry --- Self-translation. --- Multilingualism and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Translations --- Literature and multilingualism --- Literature --- Auto-translation (Self-translation) --- Translating and interpreting --- Russian literature --- Literature: history & criticism

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This volume addresses one of the central issues in literary translation: the relationship between the creative freedom of the translator and the multiplicity of constraints to which translation is necessarily subject. The links between an author's translation work and his or her own writing are likewise explored. Through a series of compelling case studies, this volume illustrates the parallel and overlapping discourses within the cognate areas of literary studies, creative writing and translation studies, which together propose a view of translation as (a form of) creative writing, and creative writing itself as being shaped by translation processes. The translations of selected contemporary French, Spanish and German texts offer readers some insights into how the translator's work mirrors and complements that of the creative writer. The combination of theory and practice presented in this volume will appeal not just to specialists in translation studies but also to a wider public.

Translating and interpreting --- Creative writing --- Vertaler als auteur --- Vertalen en creatief schrijven --- Vertaling en origineel --- Translating and interpreting. --- Creative writing. --- Vertaler als auteur. --- Vertalen en creatief schrijven. --- Vertaling en origineel. --- Language Arts & Disciplines / Translating & Interpreting --- Language arts --- Communication arts --- Communication --- Study and teaching --- Literature --- languaget --- translation --- creative writing --- literary studies --- translating literature --- Italy --- Peter Pan --- Self-translation --- Transcreation

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This book investigates the political, social, cultural and economic implications of self-translation in multilingual spaces in Europe. Engaging with the power turn in translation studies contexts, it offers innovative perspectives on the role of self-translators as cultural and ideological mediators. The authors explore the unequal power relations and centre-periphery dichotomies of Europe’s minorised languages, literatures and cultures. They recognise that the self-translator’s double affiliation as author and translator places them in a privileged position to challenge power, to negotiate the experiences of the subaltern and colonised, and to scrutinize conflicting minorised vs. hegemonic cultural identities. Three are the main themes explored in relation to self-translation: hegemony and resistance; self-minorisation and self-censorship; and collaboration, hybridisation and invisibility. This edited collection will appeal to scholars and students working on translation, transnational and postcolonial studies, and multilingual and multicultural identities. .

Translation science --- Europe --- Self-translation --- Multilingualism --- Translation and interpretation. --- Europe—History. --- Literature—Translations. --- Romance languages. --- Philology. --- Linguistics. --- Intercultural communication. --- Translation. --- European History. --- Translation Studies. --- Romance Languages. --- Language and Literature. --- Intercultural Communication. --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Translation and interpretation --- Translators --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Neo-Latin languages --- Italic languages and dialects --- Translating --- Anthropological aspects --- Self-translation - Europe --- Multilingualism - Europe --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Translating and interpreting. --- Comparative literature. --- Language Translation. --- Comparative Literature. --- Stylistics. --- Linguostylistics --- Stylistics --- Literary style --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Gay culture Europe --- History. --- Style. --- History and criticism