Intimate Enemies: Translation in Francophone Contexts

Intimate Enemies: Translation in Francophone Contexts
ISBN-10
184631867X
ISBN-13
9781846318672
Series
Intimate Enemies
Category
Foreign Language Study
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
Kathryn Batchelor, Claire Bisdorff

Description

Translation—as a concept—has become central to postcolonial theory in recent decades, offering useful insights and metaphors for the processes explored within the framework of postcolonial studies. But translation itself is still an underexplored activity within this discipline. Intimate Enemies rights this wrong, weaving together reflections on translation by translators, authors, and academics working in regions of Africa, the Caribbean, and nations in the Indian Ocean. Moving beyond the traditional view of translation as betraying, at some level, original texts, the contributors instead highlight the potential for translation to counter the destructive effects of globalization, promote linguistic diversity, and reveal the dynamic political and economic contexts in which books are written, sold, and read.

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