Ebook: Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures : Multilingual Contexts, Translational Texts
Author: Bertacco Simona
- Tags: Literature -- Translations -- History and criticism. Translating and interpreting -- Social aspects. Literature and globalization. Multilingualism and literature. Postcolonialism in literature. Literature -- Translations.
- Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Taylor and Francis
- City: Hoboken
- Language: English
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This collection gathers together a stellar group of contributors offering innovative perspectives on the issues of language and translation in postcolonial studies. In a world where bi- and multilingualism have become quite normal, this volume identifies a gap in the critical apparatus in postcolonial studies in order to read cultural texts emerging out of multilingual contexts. The role of translation and an Read more...
Abstract: This collection gathers together a stellar group of contributors offering innovative perspectives on the issues of language and translation in postcolonial studies. In a world where bi- and multilingualism have become quite normal, this volume identifies a gap in the critical apparatus in postcolonial studies in order to read cultural texts emerging out of multilingual contexts. The role of translation and an awareness of the multilingual spaces in which many postcolonial texts are written are fundamental issues with which postcolonial studies needs to engage in a far more concerted fashion