Siting Translation by Niranjana, Tejaswini

Siting Translation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520074514)

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Siting Translation by Niranjana, Tejaswini

Siting Translation

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Siting Translation by Niranjana, Tejaswini

Siting Translation

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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.

Author: Tejaswini Niranjana
ISBN-10: 0520074513
ISBN-13: 9780520074514
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 01/08/1992
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.51w x 0.68d
By Tejaswini Niranjana
By Tejaswini Niranjana
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Tejaswini Niranjana received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad.

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