Includes bibliographical references and index.

Myriam Diocaretz: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Marta Segarra: Critical Introduction -- PART I : Translating other Discourses -- Susan SELLERS: Translating the Enigma: Hélène Cixous's Writing Notebooks -- Verena ANDERMATT CONLEY: Betrayed -- Part II: Translating 'as if Other', or Translation in Difference -- Eric PRENOWITZ: The "Equivocal Vocation" of Translation -- Monica FIORINI: La coupe des mots. Notes on the Italian Translation of OR Les lettres de mon père -- Lynn K. PENROD : Translation's Inifinite Spiral : Reading, Translating, Reading Cixous -- Sissel LIE: "Without your breath on my words, there will not be any mimosa". Reflections on Translation -- Maribel PEÑALVER VICEA: The Betrayal of Textual Différence (of the Voiles ): a Translational Analysis of Savoir -- PART III: Translating Sexual Difference -- Nadia SETTI: Transreadings -- Isako MATSUMOTO: Problems in Translating Hélène Cixous into Japanese Feminine Language -- PART IV: Translating Other's Culture, or Translating Words into Bodes -- Anu ANEJA: "Translating HC/Writing the self" ( L'Indiade and the Replication of an Elusive Dream) -- Judith G. MILLER: Translating Hélène Cixous's Tambours sur la digue: The Ineffable on Stage -- Deborah JENSON : Hélène Cixous, Translator of History and Legend : « Ce transport vertigineux" -- Liliana ALEXANDRESCU: Beyond the Text, into the Realm of Live Performance: Working on the Portrait de Dora -- Bibliography.

Joyful Babel: Translating Hélène Cixous is a selection of critical essays on translation and the writing of Hélène Cixous, with contributions from translators of her texts into different languages and cultures. The present volume is unique in that it is the first collection of essays on the work of Cixous from the perspective of translation. It presents new explorations into translating as process, theory and practice, and new insights on Cixous's fictional and theoretical world. It is an international collection, open to readings of Cixous's writing, including the theoretical, fictional and dramatic discourses. The variety of intersecting subjects and perspectives provokes, interrogates and explores Cixous's theory and writing in ways that will contribute to a deeper understanding of her oeuvre, will motivate new debates as well as inspire new research. This book is addressed to a wide range of readers, from those who initiate themselves to translation or already practise it, to readers and critics of Cixous's work, linguists and translation theorists, scholars interested in gender and postcolonial issues, and critics of contemporary literature; thus, not only academics but also professional translators, as well as drama/theatre staging practitioners.

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