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Dr Tina Steiner MA (UCT), PhD (UCT)   DESIGNATION: Senior Lecturer   TEACHING AREAS African fiction Translation studies Postcolonial literature Migration studies Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean   RESEARCH African/Asian literature and Islam Eastern African literature and the Indian Ocean Migration and African diaspora ...more detail   OTHER Honours co-ordinator Translations between German and English Group leader: Eastern African and Indian Ocean Studies Reading Group (together with Dr. Grace Musila)   PUBLICATIONS    BOOKS

Translated People, Translated Text: Language and Migration in Contemporary African Literature. Manchester: St Jerome, 2009.

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS  Forthcoming: 'Translating between India and Tanzania: Sophia Mustafa's partial cosmopolitanism' Research in African Literatures (42.3), 2011. Ed. Gaurav Desai. 'Writing "Wider Worlds": The Role of Relation in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Fiction' Research in African Literatures (41.3), 2010. Eds. Peter Mwikisa and Mary Lederer. 'Of cracked lenses: cultural translation, opacity and the African novel' Social Dynamics (36.2), 2010. Eds. Harry Garuba, Cheryl-Ann Michael and Meg Samuelson. 'Navigating Multilingually: The chronotope of the ship in contemporary East African fiction' English Studies in Africa (51.2), 2008. Ed Michael Titlestad. 'Strategic Nostalgia, Islam and Cultural Translation in Leila Aboulela's Fiction'. Current Writing 20 (2), 2008. Ed. Duncan Brown.    'Of Translators, Travellers and Readers: The Transmission of Knowledge in Contexts of Power in Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier (1998)'. English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies 25 (1) 2008.   'Pockets of Connection against the Backdrop of 'Culture Talk' in Ishtiyaq Shukri's The Silent Minaret'. Current Writing 19 (1) 2007.   'Mimicry or Translation? Storytelling and Migrant Identity in Abdulrazak Gurnah's novels Admiring Silence and By the Sea'. Special Edition of The Translator Ed. Loredana Polezzi. St. Jerome, 2006.    'The Pull Between Old and New Communities in M.G. Vassanji's Novels of Migration'. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature. Special Issue on African Literature. Eds. Esonwanne, Garuba, Nai'Allah, 2005.    CHAPTERS IN BOOKS   'Writing in the 'Contact Zone': The Problem of Post-Colonial Literary Translation. Reading Tsitsi Dangarembga's novel Nervous Conditions in German'. Writing Back In/And Translation. Ed. Raoul Granqvist. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006.