Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the fact of translation in postcolonial literatures / Simona Bertacco -- Translational texts. Bridging the silence: inner translation and the metonymic gap / Bill Ashcroft -- From the early decolonization to contemporary gender issues in the African novel in English, French and Arabic / Chantal Zabus -- Learning to shant well and the art of the good translator / Roberta Cimarosti -- The "gift" of translation to postcolonial literatures / Simona Bertacco -- Translation as pre-text. "Make a plan": pre-texts in Zimbabwe / Doris Sommer and Naseemah Mohamed -- Postcolonial cities and the culture of translation / Sherry Simon -- Elli, Lella, Elengou: a vernacular poetics for the Mediterranean / Stephanos Stephanides -- The politics of language choice in the "English-language" theater of Malaysia / Susan Philip -- Contexts of translation. "Word of struggle": the politics of translation in indigenous Pacific literature / Michelle Keown -- Translation and creation in a postcolonial context / Franca Cavagnoli -- Opening up to complexity in the global era: translating postcolonial literatures / Biancamaria Rizzardi Perutelli -- Colonial past, digital future. Civilized, globalized, or nationalized?: Peter Greenway's Pillowbook and post-colonial calligraphy / Evelyn Nien-Ming Chien -- Doing the translation sums: colonial pasts and digital futures / Michael Cronin.