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The Fictions of Translation
Edited by Judith Woodsworth
[Benjamins Translation Library 139] 2018
► pp. 139–154

Chapter 8
Moving texts

The representation of the translator in Yoko Tawada’s and Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s stories

Article outline
  • Yoko Tawada and the physicality of translating
  • Emine Sevgi Özdamar and migration as Übersetzung
  • Translators of translingualism
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 14 February 2018
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