| Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts Contributor(s): Dingwaney, Anuradha (Editor), Maier, Carol (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0822955415 ISBN-13: 9780822955412 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $52.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Translating & Interpreting |
| Dewey: 418.02 |
| LCCN: 94-39790 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6" W x 9" (1.21 lbs) 374 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Translated texts are often either uncritically consumed by readers, teacher, and scholars or seen to represent an ineluctable loss, a diminishing of original texts. Translation, however, is a cultural practice, influenced also by social and political imperatives, which can open more doors than it closes. The essays in this book show how the act of translation, when vigilantly and critically attended to, becomes a means for active interrogation. |