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Title Between languages and cultures : translation and cross-cultural texts / Anuradha Dingwaney and Carol Maier, editors
Published Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description xiii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy and culture
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Contents Introduction: Translating "Third World" Cultures / Anuradha Dingwaney -- Toward a Theoretical Practice for Cross-Cultural Translation / Carol Maier -- On Destiny, Language, and Translation; or, Ophelia Adrift in the C. & O. Canal / Rosario Ferre -- In the Shadow of the Father Tongue: On Translating the Masks in J.-S. Alexis / Sharon Masingale Bell -- The Rebel's Silhouette: Translating Faiz Ahmed Faiz / Agha Shahid Ali -- Embargoed Literature / Edward W. Said -- "Goody Two-shoes" / "Goosee Shoo-shoo": Translated Tales of Resistance in Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor / Lawrence Needham -- Writing Europe's "Orient": Spanish-American Travelers to the "Orient" / Jacinto R. Fombona I. -- The Price of Happiness: C. L. R. James in New York, 1950 / Tim Brennan -- Translation as Manipulation: The Power of Images and Images of Power / Mahasweta Sengupta -- Aime Cesaire's Subjective Geographies: Translating Place and the Difference It Makes / Indira Karamcheti
Translating Space: Russia's Poets in the Wake of Empire / Harsha Ram -- Religious and Cultural Considerations in Translating Shakespeare Into Arabic / Amel Amin-Zaki -- A Gift of Tamil: On Compiling an Anthology of Translations from Tamil Literature / Paula Richman and Norman Cutler -- Translation, Cultural Transgression and Tribute, and Leaden Feet / Mary N. Layoun -- "this is the oppressor's language / yet I need it to talk to you": Language, a place of struggle / bell hooks -- Translation as a Method for Cross-Cultural Teaching / Anuradha Dingwaney and Carol Maier -- A Comment on Translation, Critique, and Subversion / Talal Asad -- On the Virtues of Not Understanding / James Boyd White -- Untitled Structures / Fred Maier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Intercultural communication.
Language and culture.
Translating and interpreting.
Author Maier, Carol, 1943-
Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney, 1951-
LC no. 94039790
ISBN 0822938588
0822955415 (paperback)