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Book Synopsis
The act of translation is a political action. This title draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among people, races, and languages.

Table of Contents
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

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 08/01/1992
      ISBN13: 9780520074514, 978-0520074514
      ISBN10: 0520074513
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      Translation and language interpretation Cultural studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The act of translation is a political action. This title draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among people, races, and languages.

      Table of Contents
      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

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