Between Language and Cultures

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 Needham is Donald R. Longman Professor of English at Oberlin College. She is the author or editor of several books including Using the Master’s Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas. Carol Maier is professor of Spanish translation at Kent State University.

Preface
Introduction: Translating "Third World" Cultures	p. 3
Toward a Theoretical Practice for Cross-Cultural Translation	p. 21
On Destiny, Language, and Translation; or, Ophelia Adrift in the C. and O. Canal	p. 39
In the Shadow of the Father Tongue: On Translating the Masks in J.-S. Alexis	p. 51
The Rebel's Silhouette: Translating Faiz Ahmed Faiz	p. 75
Embargoed Literature	p. 97
"Goody Two-shoes" / "Goosee Shoo-shoo": Translated Tales of Resistance in Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor	p. 103
Writing Europe's "Orient": Spanish-American Travelers to the "Orient"	p. 119
The Price of Happiness: C. L. R. James in New York, 1950	p. 133
Translation as Manipulation: The Power of Images and Images of Power	p. 159
Aime Cesaire's Subjective Geographies: Translating Place and the Difference It Makes	p. 181
Translating Space: Russia's Poets in the Wake of Empire	p. 199
Religious and Cultural Considerations in Translating Shakespeare Into Arabic	p. 223
A Gift of Tamil: On Compiling an Anthology of Translations from Tamil Literature	p. 245
Translation, Cultural Transgression and Tribute, and Leaden Feet	p. 267
"this is the oppressor's language / yet I need it to talk to you": Language, a place of struggle	p. 295
Translation as a Method for Cross-Cultural Teaching	p. 303
A Comment on Translation, Critique, and Subversion	p. 325
On the Virtues of Not Understanding	p. 333
Untitled Structures	p. 341
Notes on Contributors	p. 345
Index	p. 351
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