Between Languages and Cultures
Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts
Published on 23. November 2010
374 pages
978-0-8229-7468-0 (ISBN)
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Translated texts are often either uncritically consumed by readers, teacher, and scholars or seen to represent an ineluctable loss, a diminishing of original texts. Translation, however, is a cultural practice, influenced also by social and political imperatives, which can open more doors than it closes. The essays in this book show how the act of translation, when vigilantly and critically attended to, becomes a means for active interrogation.
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Anuradha Dingwaney Needham is Donald R. Longman Professor of English at Oberlin College. She is the author or editor of several books including Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Translating "Third World" Cultures
- I. Translators on Translating Across Cultures
- Toward a Theoretical Practice for Cross-Cultural Transtation
- On Destiny, Language, and Translation
- or, Ophelia Adrift in the C. & O. Canal
- In the Shadow of the Father Tongue: On Translating the Masks in J.-S. Alexis
- The Rebel's Silhouette: Translating Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- II. (Not) Translating Across Cultures
- Embargoed Literature
- Goody Two-Shoes" / "Goosee Shoo-shoo": Translated Tales of Resistance in Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor
- Writing Europe's "Orient": Spanish-American Travelers to the Orient
- The Price of Happiness: C.L.R. James in New York, 1950
- Translation as Manipulation: The Power of Images ans Images of Power
- III. Examining Translations and Cross-Cultural Encounters
- Aime Cesaire's Subjectice Geographies: Translating Place and the Difference it Makes
- Translating Space: Russia's Poets in the Wake of Empire
- Religious and Cultural Considerations in Translating Shakespeare into Arabic
- A Gift of Tamil: On Compiling an Antholog of Translations from Tamil Literature
- Translation, Cultural Transgression and Tribute, and Leaden Feet
- IV. Translation, Pedagogy, and Cross-Culturl Texts
- this is the opressor's language / yet I need it to talk to you": Language, a place of struggle
- Translation as a Method for Cross-Cultural Teaching
- V. Responses
- A Comment on Translation, Critique, Subversion
- On the Virtues of Not Understanding
- Untitled Structures
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
