The translation zone: a new comparative literature

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: Conde's Creolite 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 CHAPTER 16: A New Comparative Literature 243

NOTES 253

INDEX 287.