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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 colonialism to...  more »
ISBN-13: 9788125004714
ISBN-10: 8125004718
Publication Date: 6/1/1995
Pages: 203
Edition: 1
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Publisher: South Asia Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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