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    Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era
    Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era
    Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era
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    Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era

    By Sherry Simon

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    This volume explores the theoretical foundations of postcolonial translation in settings as diverse as Malaysia, Ireland, India and South America. Changing the Terms examines stimulating links that are currently being forged between linguistics, literature and cultural theory. In doing so, the authors probe complex sequences of intercultural contact, fusion and breach. The impact that history and politics have had on the role of translation in the evolution of literary and cultural relations is investigated in fascinating detail.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Ottawa Press
    Release dateNov 27, 2000
    ISBN9780776615608
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