TABLE OF CONTENTS: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
TWENTY THESES ON TRANSLATION xi
INTRODUCTION 1
Introduction 3
CHAPTER 1: Translation after 9/11: Mistranslating the Art of War 12
PART ONE: TRANSLATING HUMANISM 23
CHAPTER 2: The Human in the Humanities 25
CHAPTER 3: Global Translatio: The "Invention" of Comparative Literature, Istanbul, 1933 41
CHAPTER 4: Saidian Humanism 65
PART TWO: THE POLITICS OF UNTRANSLATABILITY 83
CHAPTER 5: Nothing Is Translatable 85
CHAPTER 6: "Untranslatable" Algeria: The Politics of Linguicide 94
CHAPTER 7: Plurilingual Dogma: Translation by Numbers 109
PART THREE :LANGUAGE WARS 127
CHAPTER 8: Balkan Babel: Language Zones, Military Zones 129
CHAPTER 9: War and Speech 139
CHAPTER 10: The Language of Damaged Experience 149
CHAPTER 11: CNN Creole: Trademark Literacy and Global Language Travel 160
CHAPTER 12: Condé's Créolité in Literary History 178
PART FOUR: TECHNOLOGIES OF TRANSLATION 191
CHAPTER 13: Nature into Data 193
CHAPTER 14: Translation with No Original: Scandals of Textual Reproduction 210
CHAPTER 15: Everything Is Translatable 226
CONCLUSION 241
CHAPTER 16: A New Comparative Literature 243
NOTES 253
INDEX 287
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