The linguistically innovative aspect of Francophone African literature has been recognized and studied from a variety of angles over recent decades, yet little attention has been paid to what happens to such literature when it is translated into another language

Decolonizing Translation: ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Francophone African Novels and Their Translation into EnglishCorpus Boundaries- African- GenreTranslation into English- Index Translationum- PEN/IRL Report on the International Situation of Literary TranslationPresence on the UK/US Book MarketsThemes of Translated NovelsStyle in Translated NovelsLinguistic Innovation: Creativity or Corruption?Linguistic Innovation in an African context2. Linguistic Diversity and PolyglossiaReferences to Polyglossia in the Corpus Texts Depicting Polyglossia and Linguistic Diversity 3. Visible Traces and Traces within TracesInterpreting the Significance of Visible TracesTranslation of Visible Traces- Simplification of Orthography- Alterations to Typography- Eliminations of Visible Traces - Relocation of Glosses and Addition of Further Explanatory Material- Omission of GlossesTraces within TracesSummary 4. Basilectal and Mesolectal FrenchNovels Set in the Colonial Era: français petit nègre- Pidgin-for-pidgin (or Pseudo-pidgin for Pseudo-pidgin) Approaches- Rendering petit nègre Using Inaccurate English- Retaining French- From Depiction to Description- Evaluation of Translation Approaches to petit nègreBasilectal French in Post-Independence Novels- Rendering Basilectal Orthographical Variation with Orthographical Corruption in English- Rendering Basilectal Variation in Standard English- Retaining the French of the Original- Summary of Translation Approaches to Basilectal French in Post-Independence NovelsDepicting Children's Language- Translating Isolated Basilectal Expressions- Re-creating Idiosyncratic Basilectal StylesMesolectal French- Semantic Neologisms- Borrowing- Calqued Expressions- Derivation- Grammatical and Paralinguistic VariationsSummary5. RelexificationCompositionDerivation HypostasisCalquing6. Onomastics and WordplayOnomasticsWordplay7. Towards a Decolonized Translation PracticeTranslating Visible TracesTranslating RelexificationTranslating Onomastics and WordplayBasilectal and Mesolectal Features, or, Tranlsating DialectDecolonized Translation Practice: Some Conclusions 8. Exploring the Postcolonial Turn in Translation TheoryBerman, Venuti, Spivak: Ethical Translation, Erotic Translation and the Problem of EffectSpaces Between and InterculturesFurther Applications of Bhabhian TheoryBibliographyIndex