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11%OFFBella Brodzki - Can These Bones Live?: Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory - 9780804755429 - V9780804755429
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Can These Bones Live?: Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory

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Description for Can These Bones Live?: Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory Paperback.

Can These Bones Live? views translation as a mode of literary invigoration—indeed, as a process at the core of all important cultural transactions—rather than a mere utilitarian means of converting the terms of one language into another. Brodzki considers a wide array of canonical and lesser-known fictional and autobiographical works by authors from North America, Europe, and Africa—including Philip Roth, Italo Calvino, Jorge Semprun, and Buchi Emecheta—that foreground translation as narrative theme, figurative device, and textual strategy. The book emphasizes translation's critical role in literary history by examining depictions of the translator figure in contemporary literature and by showing that ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804755429
SKU
V9780804755429
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About Bella Brodzki
Bella Brodzki is Professor of Comparative Literature at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the co-editor of Life Lines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography (1988).

Reviews for Can These Bones Live?: Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory
"In this pioneering study, translation is a matter of life and death .... In Brodzki's hands, such a broad view of translation proves extremely productive in the service of hermeneutics, applied to a range of American, European, and African text, fictional and autobiographical, whose historical frames coincide with late modernity and post modernity. Her selections are marked by or reverberate ... Read more

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