Between Languages and Cultures : Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Composition, Literacy, and Culture
ISBN-10
0822955415
ISBN-13
9780822955412
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Imprint
University of Pittsburgh Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 15th, 1996
Print length
376 Pages
Product Classification:
Translation & interpretationTranslation and language interpretation
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The essays in this book show how the act of translation, when vigilantly and critically attended to, becomes a means for active interrogation.
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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