CONTENTS

Introduction Sandra Bermann	1
PART I: TRANSLATION AS MEDIUM AND ACROSS MEDIA	11
The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals Edward Said	15
Issues in the Translatability of Law Pierre Legrand	30
Simultaneous Interpretation: Language and Cultural Difference Lynn Visson	51
A Touch of Translation: On Walter Benjamin’s “Task of the Translator” Samuel Weber	65
The Languages of Cinema Michael Wood	79
PART II: THE ETHICS OF TRANSLATION	89
Translating into English Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak	93
Tracking the “Native Informant”: Cultural Translation as the Horizon of Literary Translation Henry Staten	111
Levinas, Translation, and Ethics Robert Eaglestone	127
Comparative Literature: The Delay in Translation Stanley Corngold	139
Translation as Community: The Opacity of Modernizations of Genji monogatari Jonathan E. Abel	146
Translation with No Original: Scandals of Textual Reproduction Emily Apter	159
PART III: TRANSLATION AND DIFFERENCE	175
Local Contingencies: Translation and National Identities Lawrence Venuti	177
Nationum Origo Jacques Lezra	203
Metrical Translation: Nineteenth-Century Homers and the Hexameter Mania Yopie Prins	229
Translating History Sandra Bermann	257
German Academic Exiles in Istanbul: Translation as the Bildung of the Other Azade Seyhan	274
DeLillo in Greece Eluding the Name Stathis Gourgouris	289
PART IV: BEYOND THE NATION	311
Translating Grief Françoise Lionnet	315
“Synthetic Vision”: Internationalism and the Poetics of Decolonization Gauri Viswanathan	326
National Literature in Transnational Times: Writing Transition in the “New” South Africa Vilashini Cooppan	346
Postcolonial Latin America and the Magic Realist Imperative: A Report to an Academy Sylvia Molloy	370
Death in Translation David Damrosch	380
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS	399
INDEX	403