Critical Translation Studies

By:

Douglas Robinson

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies

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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.

Author Biography:

Douglas Robinson is Chair Professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University. A scholar of language, literature, translation, and rhetoric, and a translator from Finnish to English since 1975, he is author most recently of Schleiermacher’s Icoses (Zeta Books, 2013), The Dao of Translation (Routledge, 2015), The Deep Ecology of Rhetoric in Mencius and Aristotle (SUNY Press, 2015), Semiotranslating Peirce (Tartu Semiotics Library, 2016), and Exorcising Translation (Bloomsbury, 2017), and editor of The Pushing Hands of Translation and its Theory (Routledge, 2016).

Release date NZ

September 26th, 2019

Author

Douglas Robinson

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

210

Series

Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies

ISBN-13

9780367410636

Product ID

31139961

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