Critical translation studies

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Critical translation studies

Douglas Robinson

(Routledge advances in translation and interpreting studies, 19)

Routledge, 2019, c2017

  • : pbk

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"First issued in paperback 2019"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-189) and index

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This book offers an introduction for Translation Studies (TS) scholars to Critical Translation Studies (CTS), a cultural-studies approach to the study of translation spearheaded by Sakai Naoki and Lydia H. Liu, with an implicit focus on translation as a social practice shaped by power relations in society. The central claim in CTS is that translators help condition what TS scholars take to be the primal scene of translation: two languages, two language communities, with the translator as mediator. According to Sakai, intralingual translation is primal: we are all foreigners to each other, making every address to another "heterolingual", thus a form of translation; and it is the order that these acts of translation bring to communication that begins to generate the "two separate languages" scenario. CTS is dedicated to the historicization of the social relations that create that scenario. In three sets of "Critical Theses on Translation," the book outlines and explains (and partly critiques) the CTS approach; in five interspersed chapters, the book delves more deeply into CTS, with an eye to making it do work that will be useful to TS scholars.

Table of Contents

Critical Theses on Translation 1: Sakai Circa 1997 1. Liu Reading Marx 2. The Double-Bind of Translation Quality Assessment Critical Theses on Translation 2: Sakai and Solomon Circa 2006 3. Walter Benjamin's Intentions 4. What One Reads When One Reads Heidegger 5. The Socioecological Thought of Laozi and Mengzi Critical Theses on Translation 3: Solomon Circa 2014 Conclusion

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