Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts and Politics

- Chapter 1. Interrogating Translation as a Doubly Political and Contextual Act (Mohammed Albakry).- Chapter 2. Montesquieu's Geometer & the Tyrannical Spirits of Translation (Joseph McAlhany).- Chapter 3. Mediating Science in Early Modern England and France (Lindsay Wilson).- Chapter 4. Translating the Forging and Forgery of Mid-nineteenth Century Swiss(-German)Identity in Gottfried Keller's People of Seldwyla (Hans Gabriel).- Chapter 5. No Blind Admirer of Byron: Imperialist Rivalries and Activist Translation in Júlio Dinis's Uma Família Inglesa (Suzanne Black).- Chapter 6. Between Huda Sha'rawi's Memoirs and Harem Years (Nada Ayad).- Chapter 7. Nothing but Sex from Beginning to End: Censorship in Translating Vladimir Nabokov's Novels in Spain during the Francoist Dictatorship (1939-1975) (Juan Ignacio Guijarro González).- Chapter 8. The Politics of Relay Translation and Language Hierarchies: The Case of Stanislaw Lem's Solaris (Justine Pas).- Chapter 9. Navigating Knots: Negotiating the "Original" and its Embedded Layers of Translations across Cultural Boundaries (Karen Rauch).- Chapter 10. Representing the Tibet Conflict in the Chinese Translation of Western News Reports (Li Pan).

Mohammed Albakry is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics and Affiliate Faculty in the Literacy Studies Ph.D. Program at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. He has authored numerous refereed articles and co-edited the drama anthology Tahir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution (2016). He is also a practicing translator and was awarded a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship.