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- English
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About this book
Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches offers compelling explorations of the pivotal role that translation plays in the complex and necessarily incomplete process of decolonisation. In a world where translation has historically been a tool of empire and colonisation, this collection shines the spotlight on the potential for translation to be a driving force in decolonial resistance. The book bridges the divide between translation studies and the decolonial turn in the social sciences and humanities, revealing the ways in which translation can challenge colonial imaginaries, institutions, and practice, and how translation opens up South-to-South conversations. It brings together scholars from diverse disciplines and fields, including sociology, literature, languages, migration, politics, anthropology, and more, offering interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives. By examining both the theoretical and practical aspects of this intersection, the chapters of this agenda-setting collection explore the impact of translation on decolonisation and highlight the need to decolonise translation studies itself. The book illuminates the transformative power of translation in transcending linguistic, cultural, and political boundaries.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Translation in the Service of (De)colonisation
- 1 Translating Into English
- 2 Decolonial and Postcolonial Perspectives on Translation: Compatibilities and Contradictions
- 3 Reparative Translation, Decoloniality, Metacoloniality
- 4 Feminism and Translation in India: Why We Need to Think About Language in Feminist Activism
- 5 On Translation Ideology
- 6 Forked Tongues: Translation and (De)colonisation in Two Global Novels by Contemporary Women Writers
- 7 Armed With Words: (De)colonising Translation in the US-led NATO War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- 8 Translation as Decolonial Method: On the (Un)translatability of Human Rights Demands and the Coloniality of Migration in Refugee Protest in Germany
- 9 Fahmida Riaz’s Āwāz: Translation and Solidarities in the Global South
- 10 Translating the Other: Ghassan Kanafani’s Travelogue … Then Rose Asia
- 11 Writing Diasporic In-Betweenness: South Asians in Colonial and Postcolonial East Africa in the Novels of M. G. Vassanji
- 12 Translation as Activism, Translators as Activists
- 13 Finding Our Way: Dialogue Among Our Languages Is the Way to the Unity of African Peoples
- Index