Joyful Babel

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Joyful Babel is written by Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz and published by Rodopi. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9042009896 (ISBN 10) and 9789042009899 (ISBN 13).

Diocaretz (European Centre for Digital Communication/Infonomics, Maastricht) and Searra (women and literature, French and Francophone literature and cinema, U. of Barcelona) bring together a collection of critical essays on translation and the writing of Cixous, featuring contributions by translators of Cixous' texts into various languages and cultures. Thirteen essays are organized into sections on translating special discourses (Cixous's notebooks and Paris seminars) into a written one; translation as an experience related to a dialogue with the Other, to difference, to the foreign, and possessing an ethical dimension; and practical and theoretical considerations, particularly with regard to gender. No subject index. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).