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This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries, evaluating vital roles of translation in redefining culture and ethnic identity. The essays in this volume explore the symbiotic relation between English and Tamil during the late colonial and postcolonial as also the modernist and the postmodernist periods.
This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It sheds light on how English and Tamil acted as a conduit for cultural transmission among different groups during the first phase of colonialism - mid-18th to late-19th century - to explore the vital role of translation in redefining ethnic identity.
The problems of translating literature explored through both theoretical approaches and practical case studies.
Bridging the divide between those who study translation and those who produce translations, through essays written by well-known translators talking about their own work as creative literary practice, this book aims at giving voice to silent translators and in so doing to move the attention back to the act of translating.
This collection of essays brings together a decade of writings on translation by leading international translation studies expert, Susan Bassnett. The essays cover a range of topics and will be useful to anyone with an interest in how different cultures communicate.
A collection of much previously unpublished archive material, including documents from Luigi Pirandello's theoretical essays and reviews. Emphasizing Pirandello as a multi-faceted man of the theatre, this text follows the rise and fall of his theatre company, and his work in the years of Fascism.
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