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Translation and power /

The 11 essays of this collection consider cases where translated texts serve as expressions of power. The cases include the Maori translation of the treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand; translation of the word democracy in Victorian England; a critical analysis of interpretation studies; translations...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tymoczko, Maria, Gentzler, Edwin, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
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  • Translation and the establishment of liberal democracy in nineteenth-century England : constructing the political as an interpretive act / Alexandra Lianeri
  • Translation of the Treaty of Waitangi : a case of disempowerment / Sabine Fenton and Paul Moon
  • Empire talks back : orality, heteronomy, and the cultural turn in interpretation studies / Michael Cronin / Writing, interpreting, and the power struggle for the control of meaning : scenes from Kafka, Borges, and Kosztolányi / Rosemary Arrojo
  • Translation as testimony : on official histories and subversive pedagogies in Cortázar / Adriana S. Pagano
  • Translating woman : Victoria Ocampo and the empires of foreign fascination / Christopher Larkosh
  • Germaine de Staël and Gayatri Spivak : culture brokers / Sherry Simon
  • Spanish film translation and cultural patronage : the filtering and manipulation of imported material during Franco's dictatorship / Camino Gutiérrez Lanza
  • Translation as a catalyst for social change in China / Lin Kenan
  • Translation, dépaysement, and their figuration / Carol Maier
  • Translation, poststructuralism, and power / Edwin Gentzler.