Translation and Epistemicide : Racialization of Languages in the Americas / Joshua Martin Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Joshua Martin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonization.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Racism in language.

Translating and interpreting--Social aspects--America.

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tucson, Arizona : The University of Arizona Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Translation and Epistemicide: Racializing Language in the Americas argues that translation practices facilitated the colonization of knowledge in Latin America. Translation, in other words, has been a key technology in imposing European systems of classification and paradigms of thinking from the colonial period until the present day. Epistemicide, or the destruction of subaltern knowledge, is one result"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Translation and Epistemicide

1. Colonization and Commensuration: Asymmetries in the Making of Bilingual Dictionaries

2. The Anguish of Decolonial Translation: José María Arguedas and Walter Benjamin

3. Translation as Terrorism?

4. Translating "Performance" in Latin America

5. La Jotería: Stereoscopic Readings Against Epistemicide

Conclusion: An Ethics and Politics of Bewilderment.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816547838

0816547831

OCLC:

1345588788