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Title: Siting Translation
Condition: New
Subtitle: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context
Author: Tejaswini Niranjana
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0520074513
EAN: 9780520074514
ISBN: 9780520074514
Publisher: University of California Press
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Literary Criticism, Language & Reference
Release Date: 08/01/1992
Description: 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 people, 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 people to reconceive translation as a site for resistance and transformation.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Width: 18mm
Item Weight: 272g
Release Year: 1992

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