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Translation, Power, Subversion

✍ Scribed by Roman Alvarez (editor); M. Carmen-Africa Vidal (editor)

Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Leaves
164
Series
Topics in Translation; 8
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

The starting point of this book is the idea that language is not neutral and that, insofar as language is the translator's tool, the act of translating is not neutral either. Translating can never be neutral, as it is charged with ideology and 'games of power'.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Translating: A Political Act
2 The Meek or the Mighty: Reappraising the Role of the Translator
3 Norms and the Determination of Translation: A Theoretical Framework
4 Culture-specific Items in Translation
5 The Exotic Space of Cultural Translation
6 Translation and Pragmatics
7 Translation, Counter-Culture, and The Fifties in the USA
8 Translation and Canon Formation: Nine Decades of Drama in the United States
Notes on Contributors

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