Description |
xiii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Series |
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy and culture |
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Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
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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 |
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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.
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Language and culture.
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Translating and interpreting.
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Author |
Maier, Carol, 1943-
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Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney, 1951-
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LC no. |
94039790 |
ISBN |
0822938588 |
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0822955415 (paperback) |
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