Writing It Twice: Self-Translation and the Making of a World Literature in French

by Sara Kippur

Though the practice of self-translation long predates modernity, it has found new forms of expression in the global literary market of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. The international renown of self-translating authors Samuel Beckett, Joseph Brodsky, and Vladimir Nabokov has offered motivation to a new generation of writers who actively translate themselves.

Intervening in recent debates in world literature and translation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810132044
• ISBN13: 9780810132047
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"