Abstract

Self-translation is now a thriving field of research: the number of studies is increasing, methodological approaches are diversifying, and the textual dimension is increasingly opening up to social issues. The practice of self-translation is closely intertwined with the dynamics of a world in which mobility, cultural hybridization, and multilingualism are common realities whose complexity poses significant challenges, oscillating between the opposing poles of diversity/identity and inclusion/exclusion. Self-translation has always moved between these extremes. In fact, it is a search for a middle ground, however utopian or precarious, and offers the opportunity for a peculiar synthesis between the self-alienation of those who do not assimilate and the self-amputation of those who abandon their language of origin, losing themselves in translation. The twenty contributions collected in this volume explore the multifaceted dimensions of this actual and fascinating phenomenon.