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Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context
Contributor(s): Niranjana, Tejaswini (Author)

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ISBN: 0520074505     ISBN-13: 9780520074507
Publisher: University of California Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1992
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Social Science | Human Geography
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
Dewey: 428.029
LCCN: 91021487
Physical Information: 216 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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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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