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Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context

By Tejaswini Niranjana

Book information

Year
1992
ISBN
0520074505, 9780585131368, 9780520074507, 0520074513, 9780520074514
LCC
PN241 .N48 1992
Open Library ID
OL1542622M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11618523 bytes)
Pages
216\107
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The act of translation, Tejaswini Niranjana maintains, is a political action. Niranjana draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among peoples, races, and languages. The traditional view of translation underwritten by Western philosophy helped colonialism to construct the exotic "other" as unchanging and outside history, and thus easier both to appropriate and control. Scholars, administrators, and missionaries in colonial India translated the colonized people's literature in order to extend the bounds of empire. Examining translations of Indian texts from the eighteenth century to the present, Niranjana urges post-colonial peoples to reconceive translation as a site for resistance and transformation.

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