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Translation, Resistance, Activism
Maria Tymoczko (Ed.)
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Description for Translation, Resistance, Activism
Paperback. Essays on the role of translators as agents of change Editor(s): Tymoczko, Maria. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: CFP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
More than merely linguistic transposition, translation is a vector of power, resistance, rebellion, and even revolution. Exploring these facets of the ideology of translation, the contributors to this volume focus on the agency of translators and their activism. Spanning two centuries and reaching across the globe, the essays examine the varied activist strategies of key translators and translation movements.
From silence to radical manipulation of texts, translation strategies are instrumental in significant historical interventions and cultural change. Translation plays a pivotal role in ideological dialogue and struggle, including resistance to oppression and cultural straitjackets of all types, from sexual ... Read more
More than merely linguistic transposition, translation is a vector of power, resistance, rebellion, and even revolution. Exploring these facets of the ideology of translation, the contributors to this volume focus on the agency of translators and their activism. Spanning two centuries and reaching across the globe, the essays examine the varied activist strategies of key translators and translation movements.
From silence to radical manipulation of texts, translation strategies are instrumental in significant historical interventions and cultural change. Translation plays a pivotal role in ideological dialogue and struggle, including resistance to oppression and cultural straitjackets of all types, from sexual ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558498334
SKU
V9781558498334
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About Maria Tymoczko (Ed.)
Maria Tymoczko is professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is coeditor of Translation and Power and author of Enlarging Translation, Empowering Translators.
Reviews for Translation, Resistance, Activism
The scholarship in this volume is meticulous and impeccable. . . .Because of the wide range of situations considered in the essays and because the notion of resistance is significant in many different disciplines, the volume should appeal to readers in a broad spectrum of fields beyond translation studies."―Carol Maier, coeditor of Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts ... Read more