Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context - Brossura

Niranjana, Tejaswini

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ISBN 10: 0520074513 ISBN 13: 9780520074514

Casa editrice: University of California Press, 1992

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Tejaswini Niranjana received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"Niranjana brings into colloquy key texts from a classic age of translation and new post-humanistic texts on the same issues. She shows how the questions of translation must be reframed in light of the critique of emerging work on imperialism and cultural studies. This is a key work for translation studies."—Frances Bartkowski, author of Feminist Utopias

Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of California Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0520074513
• ISBN 13: 9780520074514
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 216