In Translation - Reflections, Refractions, Transformations -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- I. Translation studies in context -- Translation and society: The emergence of a conceptual relationship -- Language and translation: Contesting conventions -- Translation studies, ethnography and the production of knowledge -- Trafficking in words: Languages, missionaries and translators -- Unsafe at any speed? Some unfinished reflections on the 'cultural turn' in translation studies -- II. Writing and translation -- Translation and displacement: The life and works of Pierre Menard -- Mark Twain vs. William-Little Hughes: The transformation of a great American novel -- "A single brushstroke": Writing through translation: Anne Carson -- Translation rights and the philosophyof translation: Remembering the debts of the original -- Seeds of discontent: Re-creation and the bounds of ownership -- III. Contexts of translation -- Translation and social praxis in ancient and medieval India (With special reference to Orissa) -- From regional into pan-Indian: Towards a heterographic praxis for postcolonial translation -- Revealing the "soul of which nation?" Translated literature as cultural diplomacy -- Language as sharp as a knife: Translation in ecological context -- IV. Culture(s) in translation -- Literally ambiguous: Issues of ambiguity and identity in the French translations of Lazarillo de Tormes -- Translation terminable, interminable: Freud and Schleiermacher -- Translation and métissage -- Double take: Figuring the other and the politics of translation -- Translation as culture -- Translating culture vs. cultural translation -- References -- Index -- The series Benjamins Translation Library.