Siting Translation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Siting Translation write by Tejaswini Niranjana. This book was released on 1992-01-08. Siting Translation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Niranjana brings into colloquy key texts from a classic age of translation and new post-humanistic texts on the same issues. She shows how the questions of translation must be reframed in light of the critique of emerging work on imperialism and cultural studies. This is a key work for translation studies."—Frances Bartkowski, author of Feminist Utopias
Siting Translation
Siting Translation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Siting Translation write by Tejaswini Niranjana. This book was released on 2023-09-01. Siting Translation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Siting Translation
Siting Translation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Siting Translation write by Tejaswini Niranjana. This book was released on 1995. Siting Translation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tejaswini Niranjana draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and deMan to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal 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 to control. 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.
Translation in Anthologies and Collections (19th and 20th Centuries)
Translation in Anthologies and Collections (19th and 20th Centuries) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Translation in Anthologies and Collections (19th and 20th Centuries) write by Teresa Seruya. This book was released on 2013-08-29. Translation in Anthologies and Collections (19th and 20th Centuries) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Among the numerous discursive carriers through which translations come into being, are channeled and gain readership, translation anthologies and collections have so far received little attention among translation scholars: either they are let aside as almost ungraspable categories, astride editing and translating, mixing in most variable ways authors, genres, languages or cultures, or are taken as convenient but rather meaningless groupings of single translations. This volume takes a new stand, makes a plea to consider translation anthologies and collections at face value and offers an extensive discussion about the more salient aspects of translation anthologies and collections: their complex discursive properties, their manifold roles in canonization processes and in strategies of cultural censorship. It brings together translation scholars with different backgrounds, both theoretical and historical, and covering a wide array of European cultural areas and linguistic traditions. Of special interest for translation theoreticians and historians as well as for scholars in literary and cultural studies, comparative literature and transfer studies.
Religion and the Specter of the West
Religion and the Specter of the West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and the Specter of the West write by Arvind-Pal S. Mandair. This book was released on 2009-10-22. Religion and the Specter of the West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "religion" continues to be central. Through a case study of Sikhism, he launches an extended critique of religion as a cultural universal. At the same time, he presents a portrait of how certain aspects of Sikh tradition were reinvented as "religion" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. India's imperial elite subtly recast Sikh tradition as a sui generis religion, which robbed its teachings of their political force. In turn, Sikhs began to define themselves as a "nation" and a "world religion" that was separate from, but parallel to, the rise of the Indian state and global Hinduism. Rather than investigate these processes in isolation from Europe, Mandair shifts the focus closer to the political history of ideas, thereby recovering part of Europe's repressed colonial memory. Mandair rethinks the intersection of religion and the secular in discourses such as history of religions, postcolonial theory, and recent continental philosophy. Though seemingly unconnected, these discourses are shown to be linked to a philosophy of "generalized translation" that emerged as a key conceptual matrix in the colonial encounter between India and the West. In this riveting study, Mandair demonstrates how this philosophy of translation continues to influence the repetitions of religion and identity politics in the lives of South Asians, and the way the academy, state, and media have analyzed such phenomena.
