Subject: Language Arts & Disciplines / Translating & Interpreting

Subject: Language Arts & Disciplines / Translating & Interpreting

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Between Languages and Cultures

|9780822955412|Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts|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.| Anuradha Dingwaney Carol Maier| Composition, Literacy, and Culture| Language Arts & Disciplines / General Language Arts & Disciplines / Translating & Interpreting

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