Postcolonial Translation

Author : Susan Bassnett,Susan Bassnett (S Editor),Harish Trivedi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134754984

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Postcolonial Translation by Susan Bassnett,Susan Bassnett (S Editor),Harish Trivedi Pdf

This outstanding collection brings together eminent contributors (from Britain, the US, Brazil, India and Canada) to examine crucial interconnections between postcolonial theory and translation studies. Examining the relationships between language and power across cultural boundaries, this collection reveals the vital role of translation in redefining the meanings of culture and ethnic identity. The essay topics include: * links between centre and margins in intellectual transfer * shifts in translation practice from colonial to post-colonial societies. * translation and power relations in Indian languages * Brazilian cannibalistic theories in literary transfer.

Author : Sherry Simon,Paul St-Pierre
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780776605241

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Changing the Terms by Sherry Simon,Paul St-Pierre Pdf

This volume explores the theoretical foundations of postcolonial translation in settings as diverse as Malaysia, Ireland, India and South America. Changing the Terms examines stimulating links that are currently being forged between linguistics, literature and cultural theory. In doing so, the authors probe complex sequences of intercultural contact, fusion and breach. The impact that history and politics have had on the role of translation in the evolution of literary and cultural relations is investigated in fascinating detail. Published in English.

Author : Maria Tymoczko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134958672

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Translation in a Postcolonial Context by Maria Tymoczko Pdf

This ground-breaking analysis of the cultural trajectory of England's first colony constitutes a major contribution to postcolonial studies, offering a template relevant to most cultures emerging from colonialism. At the same time, these Irish case studies become the means of interrogating contemporary theories of translation. Moving authoritatively between literary theory and linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies, anthropology and systems theory, the author provides a model for a much needed integrated approach to translation theory and practice. In the process, the work of a number of important literary translators is scrutinized, including such eminent and disparate figures as Standishn O'Grady, Augusta Gregory and Thomas Kinsella. The interdependence of the Irish translation movement and the work of the great 20th century writers of Ireland - including Yeats and Joyce - becomes clear, expressed for example in the symbiotic relationship that marks their approach to Irish formalism. Translation in a Postcolonial Context is essential reading for anyone interested in translation theory and practice, postcolonial studies, and Irish literature during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Author : Douglas Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317642282

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Translation and Empire by Douglas Robinson Pdf

Arising from cultural anthropology in the late 1980s and early 1990s, postcolonial translation theory is based on the observation that translation has often served as an important channel of empire. Douglas Robinson begins with a general presentation of postcolonial theory, examines current theories of the power differentials that control what gets translated and how, and traces the historical development of postcolonial thought about translation. He also explores the negative and positive impact of translation in the postcolonial context, reviewing various critiques of postcolonial translation theory and providing a glossary of key words. The result is a clear and useful guide to some of the most complex and critical issues in contemporary translation studies.

Author : Ed. Mohit K. Ray
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literature
ISBN : 8126909226

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Studies in Translation by Ed. Mohit K. Ray Pdf

Author : Simona Bertacco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135136390

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Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures by Simona Bertacco Pdf

This collection gathers together a stellar group of contributors offering innovative perspectives on the issues of language and translation in postcolonial studies. In a world where bi- and multilingualism have become quite normal, this volume identifies a gap in the critical apparatus in postcolonial studies in order to read cultural texts emerging out of multilingual contexts. The role of translation and an awareness of the multilingual spaces in which many postcolonial texts are written are fundamental issues with which postcolonial studies needs to engage in a far more concerted fashion. The essays in this book by contributors from Australia, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Cyprus, Malaysia, Quebec, Ireland, France, Scotland, the US, and Italy outline a pragmatics of language and translation of value to scholars with an interest in the changing forms of literature and culture in our times. Essay topics include: multilingual textual politics; the benefits of multilingual education in postcolonial countries; the language of gender and sexuality in postcolonial literatures; translational cities; postcolonial calligraphy; globalization and the new digital ecology.

Author : Robert Stam,Ella Shohat
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814798379

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Race in Translation by Robert Stam,Ella Shohat Pdf

While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones—the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional intellectual debates, seen most recently in the emergence of postcolonial studies in France, and whiteness studies in Brazil. The authors also interrogate an ironic convergence whereby rightist politicians like Sarkozy and Cameron join hands with some leftist intellectuals like Benn Michaels, Žižek, and Bourdieu in condemning “multiculturalism” and “identity politics.” At once a report from various “fronts” in the culture wars, a mapping of the germane literatures, and an argument about methods of reading the cross-border movement of ideas, the book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the Diasporic and the Transnational.

Author : Paul Bandia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317640189

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Translation as Reparation by Paul Bandia Pdf

Translation as Reparation showcases postcolonial Africa by offering African European-language literature as a case study for postcolonial translation theory, and proposes a new perspective for postcolonial literary criticism informed by theories of translation. The book focuses on translingualism and interculturality in African Europhone literature, highlighting the role of oral culture and artistry in the writing of fiction. The fictionalizing of African orature in postcolonial literature is viewed in terms of translation and an intercultural writing practice which challenge the canons of colonial linguistic propriety through the subversion of social and linguistic conventions. The study opens up pathways for developing new insights into the ethics of translation, as it raises issues related to the politics of language, ideology, identity, accented writing and translation. It confirms the place of translation theory in literary criticism and affirms the importance of translation in the circulation of texts, particularly those from minority cultures, in the global marketplace. Grounded in a multidisciplinary approach, the book will be of interest to students and scholars in a variety of fields, including translation studies, African literature and culture, sociolinguistics and multilingualism, postcolonial and intercultural studies.

Author : Collectif
Publisher : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9782367814001

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Translating the Postcolonial in Multilingual Contexts by Collectif Pdf

This collection of essays aims to contribute to scholarship already published in Translation Studies and Postcolonial Studies, endeavouring to question the traditional divide between these two academic strands and to bring them closer together in creative ways, across several geographical regions, linguistic contexts and historical circumstances. Moving away from a binary and dichotomous approach, the authors address these questions that link linguistic heterogeneity, postcolonial resistance and border identities. How does translation as a process operate across different linguistic and cultural spaces? How do translated selves negotiate meaning simultaneously across multiple linguistic borders? For the sake of cohesion, the geopolitical zones of translational contact have been limited to two colonial/European languages, namely French and English. The regional languages involved cover postcolonial, cultural spaces where Mauritian, Haitian, Reunionese and Louisianian Creole, Gikuyu, Wolof, Swahili and Arabic are spoken.

Author : Simona Bertacco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135136383

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Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures by Simona Bertacco Pdf

This collection gathers together a stellar group of contributors offering innovative perspectives on the issues of language and translation in postcolonial studies. In a world where bi- and multilingualism have become quite normal, this volume identifies a gap in the critical apparatus in postcolonial studies in order to read cultural texts emerging out of multilingual contexts. The role of translation and an awareness of the multilingual spaces in which many postcolonial texts are written are fundamental issues with which postcolonial studies needs to engage in a far more concerted fashion. The essays in this book by contributors from Australia, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Cyprus, Malaysia, Quebec, Ireland, France, Scotland, the US, and Italy outline a pragmatics of language and translation of value to scholars with an interest in the changing forms of literature and culture in our times. Essay topics include: multilingual textual politics; the benefits of multilingual education in postcolonial countries; the language of gender and sexuality in postcolonial literatures; translational cities; postcolonial calligraphy; globalization and the new digital ecology.

Author : Tak-hung Leo Chan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027216576

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Twentieth-century Chinese Translation Theory by Tak-hung Leo Chan Pdf

Past attempts at writing a history of Chinese translation theory have been bedeviled by a chronological approach, which often forces the writer to provide no more than a list of important theories and theorists over the centuries. Or they have stretched out to almost every aspect related to translation in China, so that the historical/political backdrop that had an influence on translation theorizing turns out to be more important than the theories themselves. In the present book, the author hopes to devote exclusive attention to the ideas themselves. The approach adopted centers around eight key issues that engaged the attention of theorists through the course of the twentieth century, in the hope that a historical account will be presented that is not time-bound. On the basis of 38 articles translated into English by teachers and scholars of translation, the author has written four essays discussing the Chinese characteristics of this body of theory. Separately they focus on the impressionistic, the modern, the postcolonial, and the poststructuralist approaches deployed by leading Chinese theorists from 1901 to 1998. It is hoped that publication of this book will make possible cross-cultural dialogue with translation academics in the West, although the general reader will find much firsthand information on Chinese thinking about translation.

Author : Maria Tymoczko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134958740

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Translation in a Postcolonial Context by Maria Tymoczko Pdf

This ground-breaking analysis of the cultural trajectory of England's first colony constitutes a major contribution to postcolonial studies, offering a template relevant to most cultures emerging from colonialism. At the same time, these Irish case studies become the means of interrogating contemporary theories of translation. Moving authoritatively between literary theory and linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies, anthropology and systems theory, the author provides a model for a much needed integrated approach to translation theory and practice. In the process, the work of a number of important literary translators is scrutinized, including such eminent and disparate figures as Standishn O'Grady, Augusta Gregory and Thomas Kinsella. The interdependence of the Irish translation movement and the work of the great 20th century writers of Ireland - including Yeats and Joyce - becomes clear, expressed for example in the symbiotic relationship that marks their approach to Irish formalism. Translation in a Postcolonial Context is essential reading for anyone interested in translation theory and practice, postcolonial studies, and Irish literature during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Author : Alaoui Hichami Taoufik
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527545144

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Exploring Postcolonial Aspects of Translation by Alaoui Hichami Taoufik Pdf

This book investigates the postcolonial aspects of the translations of Ahlam Mostaghanemi’s Memory in the Flesh and Tayeb Saleh’s Season of Migration to the North. It argues that both novels provide an image of the shift of persona in the post-colonial Arab world, and how individuals have been affected with that change. It also sheds light on that sense of “homesickness” felt by individuals when they are in a host country, and how they dealt with that situation. The themes of “identity”, “romance” and “feminism” are highlighted in order to help readers gain a clear view of the experiences of the characters.

Author : Tejaswini Niranjana
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520911369

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Siting Translation by Tejaswini Niranjana Pdf

The act of translation, Tejaswini Niranjana maintains, is a political action. Niranjana draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among peoples, races, and languages. The traditional view of translation underwritten by Western philosophy helped colonialism to construct the exotic "other" as unchanging and outside history, and thus easier both to appropriate and control. Scholars, administrators, and missionaries in colonial India translated the colonized people's literature in order to extend the bounds of empire. Examining translations of Indian texts from the eighteenth century to the present, Niranjana urges post-colonial peoples to reconceive translation as a site for resistance and transformation.

Author : Ilse Feinauer,Kobus Marais
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443869324

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Translation Studies beyond the Postcolony by Ilse Feinauer,Kobus Marais Pdf

This edited volume explores the role of (postcolonial) translation studies in addressing issues of the postcolony. It investigates the retention of the notion of postcolonial translation studies and whether one could reconsider or adapt the assumptions and methodologies of postcolonial translation studies to a new understanding of the postcolony to question the impact of postcolonial translation studies in Africa to address pertinent issues. The book also places the postcolony in historical perspective, and takes a critical look at the failures of postcolonial approaches to translation studies. The book brings together 12 chapters, which are divided into three sections: namely, Africa, the Global South, and the Global North. As such, the volume is able to consider the postcolony (and even conceptualisations beyond the postcolony) in a variety of settings worldwide.