Siting Translation (Paper)

1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-520-07451-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 277 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Niranjana, Tejaswini

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

1. Introduction: History in Translation
2. Representing Texts and Cultures:

Translation Studies and Ethnography
3· Allegory and the Critique of Historicism:

Reading Paul de Man
4· Politics and Poetics: De Man, Benjamin, and
the Task of the Translator
5· Deconstructing Translation and History:

Derrida on Benjamin
6. Translation as Disruption: Post-Structuralism
and the Post-Colonial Context

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tejaswini Niranjana received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad.