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Post-colonial Translation

This outstanding collection brings together eminent contributors to

examine some crucial interconnections between post-colonial theory

and translation studies.

As English becomes an increasingly global language, so more people

become multilingual and translation becomes a crucial communicative

activity. Whereas traditional thinking about translation saw it as a poor

copy of an original, today translation is viewed as an act of invention

that produces a new original in another language. The essays in this

book, by contributors from Britain, the US, Brazil, India and Canada,

explore new perspectives on translation in relation to post-colonial

societies. The essay topics include: links between centre and margins in

the intellectual domain; shifts in translation practice from colonial to

post-colonial societies; translation and power relations among Indian

languages; Brazilian cannibalistic theories of literary transfer.

Examining the relationships between language and power across

cultural boundaries, this collection reveals the vital role of translation

in redefining the meanings of cultural and ethnic identity.

Susan Bassnett is Professor at the Centre for British and Comparative

Cultural Studies, University of Warwick. She has published extensively

in the fields of Translation Studies and Comparative Literature. She is

author of Translation Studies (Routledge 1991) and of Studying British

Cultures (Routledge 1997).

Harish Trivedi is Professor of English at the University of Delhi. He is

author of Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India , and co-

editor of Interrogating Post-colonialism. He has also published English

translations of Hindi poetry and short fiction.

Translation Studies

General editors: Susan Bassnett and André Lefevere

In the same series:

Translation, Rewriting, and the Manipulation of

Literary Fame

André Lefevere

Translation/History/Culture

Edited by André Lefevere

Translation, Poetics and the Stage

Six French Hamlets

Romy Heylen

Contemporary Translation Theories

Edwin Gentzler

The Translator’s Invisibility

Lawrence Venuti

Gender in Translation

Cultural identity and the politics of transmission

Sherry Simon

Post-colonial

Translation

Theory and practice

Edited by

Susan Bassnett

and Harish Trivedi

London and New York

First published 1999

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or

hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information

storage or retrieval system, without permission in

writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available

from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Post-colonial translation: theory & practice / [edited by]

Susan Bassnett & Harish Trivedi.

(Translation studies)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Translating and interpreting–Social aspects.

2. Postcolonialism. 3. Intercultural communication. I. Bassnett,

Susan. II. Trivedi, Harish. III. Title: Post-colonial translation

theory IV. Series: Translation studies (London, England)

P306.2.P67 1998

418’.02–dc21 98–12969

CIP

ISBN 0-415-14744-1 (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-14745-x (pbk)

ISBN 0-203-06887-4 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-21254-1 (Glassbook Format)

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