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Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context
Siting Translation History PostStructuralism and the Colonial Context
Author: Tejaswini Niranjana
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 colonialis...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520074514
ISBN-10: 0520074513
Publication Date: 1/10/1992
Pages: 203
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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