From language to language : the hospitality of translation / Souleymane Bachir Diagne ; translated from the French by Dylan Temel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diagne, Souleymane Bachir, Author.

Contributor:

Temel, Dylan, translator.

Standardized Title:

De langue à langue. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/0b10c152-9e43-1b8d-fdfc-f81082db1d95

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--Philosophy.

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

x, 117 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Other Press, [2025]

Summary:

"A renowned Senegalese philosopher explores the power of translation to bridge cultural divides in this engaging humanist text. Informed by his own multicultural background - African, French, and American - Souleymane Bachir Diagne interrogates the practice of translation in this thoughtful text. Although translation often produces a relationship of profound inequality between dominant and dominated languages, it can also be a source of dialogue and exchange, including in situations of asymmetry, particularly regarding colonialism, where the interpreter becomes a true cultural mediator. To praise translation, "the language of languages," is to celebrate their plurality and their equality, because to translate is to give hospitality in one language to what has been thought in another. It is to create reciprocity, a shared sense of humanity, and to imagine a positive version of the Tower of Babel"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Translation against domination

The linguist, the native, and the extraterrestrial

The Truchement and the translator

Translations of classical African art

The philosopher as translator

Translating the word of God

Conclusion: The language of languages.

Notes:

"Originally published in French as De langue a langue: L'hospitalite de la traduction in 2022 by Editions Albin Michel, Paris"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version Diagne, Souleymane Bachir From language to language

ISBN:

9781635423938

1635423937

OCLC:

1482668215

Publisher Number:

90103034856