Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages

This volume provides an innovative look at the body of translated work on the texts of Frantz Fanon over the last half-century and offers historical and multilingual perspectives in its reading of Fanon's texts, situating them and their translations within specific contexts but also across fifteen different languages.

Kathryn Batchelor is Associate Professor of Translation and Francophone Studies at　the University of Nottingham, UK. Her　research interests are in translation history, postcolonial translation theory, literary translation, and translation in or involving Africa. She is the author of Decolonizing Translation: Francophone African Novels in English Translation (2014 [2009]). Sue-Ann Harding is Assistant Professor of Translation Studies and Russian at Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar. Her research interests are in translation and social narrative theory especially in sites of conflict and narrative contestation. She is the author of Beslan: Six Stories of the Siege (2012) and several articles in leading journals.

Introduction: Histoire croisée, Microhistory and Translation History Kathryn Batchelor 1. Translating Resistance: Fanon and Radical Italy, 1960-1970 Neelam Srivastava 2. The Translation of Les Damnés de la terre into English: Exploring Irish Connections Kathryn Batchelor 3. Fanon in the East African Experience: Between English and Swahili Translations Alamin Mazrui 4. Fanon in Arabic: Tracks and Traces Sue-Ann Harding 5. Voice and Visibility: Fanon in the Persian Context Farzaneh Farahzad 6. Fanon in the 'Second World': Yugoslavia, Poland and the Soviet Union Mirna Radin Sabadoš, Dorota Göuch and Sue-Ann Harding 7. The Contexts of the German Translation of Frantz Fanon's Les Damnés de la terre Maike Oergel 8. Fanon in Scandinavia: Words and Actions Christina Kullberg