Translation and power / edited by Maria Tymoczko and Edwin Gentzler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tymoczko, Maria.

Gentzler, Edwin, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--Social aspects.

Translating and interpreting.

Power (Social sciences).

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 244 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2002]

Contents:

Translation and the Establishment of Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century England: Constructing the Political as an Interpretive Act / Alexandra Lianeri 1

The Translation of the Treaty of Waitangi: A Case of Disempowerment / Sabine Fenton, Paul Moon 25

The Empire Talks Back: Orality, Heteronomy, and the Cultural Turn in Interpretation Studies / Michael Cronin 45

Writing, Interpreting, and the Power Struggle for the Control of Meaning: Scenes from Kafka, Borges, and Kosztolanyi / Rosemary Arrojo 63

Translation as Testimony: On Official Histories and Subversive Pedagogies in Cortazar / Adriana S. Pagano 80

Translating Woman: Victoria Ocampo and the Empires of Foreign Fascination / Christopher Larkosh 99

Germaine de Stael and Gayatri Spivak: Culture Brokers / Sherry Simon 122

Spanish Film Translation and Cultural Patronage: The Filtering and Manipulation of Imported Material during Franco's Dictatorship / Camino Gutierrez Lanza 141

Translation as a Catalyst for Social Change in China / Lin Kenan 160

Translation, Depaysement, and Their Figuration / Carol Maier 184

Translation, Poststructuralism, and Power / Edwin Gentzler 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-235) and index.

ISBN:

1558493581

155849359X

OCLC:

50006493