The aim of this option is to read pseudotranslations not from the perspective of hoaxes or (as in Macpherson or Iolo Morganwg) attempts to create or enrich cultural pasts (though that is part of its allure), but for what the fictionalisation of the act of translating and of translational relations can contribute to questions about translation and creativity, about the ethics of translation across cultures and contexts, and about questions of appropriation and unequal power relations between languages.

Students will be encouraged to pseudo-translate, and to produce not just pseudotranslated work, but a reflection on their practice while doing so.

Open to all languages.