Translation, power, subversion

✍ Scribed by Román Álvarez, M. Carmen Africa Vidal

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 164
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a study of the relationship between translation, culture and counterculture, presenting a political and ideological vision of translating. Offering an approach to the cultural turn in Translation Studies at the end of the century, the book endeavours to explore the closer links between cultural studies and translation. It presents the arguments of several scholars on the most innovative ways of understanding translation, in order to clarify the role and function of translations and translators in culture and society.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 6
1. Translating: A Political Act (Álvarez and Carmen-África Vidal)......Page 7
2. The Meek or the Mighty: Reappraising the Role of the Translator (Bassnett)......Page 16
3. Norms and the Determination of Translation. A Theoretical Framework (Hermans)......Page 31
4. Culture-Specific Items in Translation (Aixelá)......Page 58
5. The Exotic Space of Cultural Translation (Carbonell)......Page 85
6. Translation and Pragmatics (Alcaraz)......Page 105
7. Translation, Counter-Culture, and The Fifties in the USA (Gentzler)......Page 122
8. Translation and Canon Formation: Nine Decades of Drama in the United States (Léfevere)......Page 144
Notes on Contributors......Page 162