| #1734249 in Books | 2014-09-15 | 2014-09-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.20 x1.00 x9.10l,.0 | File type: PDF | 272 pages|||"Imperial Babel brings the exciting field of translation studies to bear on the literature of the British Empire in India during the long nineteenth century, roughly from Sir William Jones and Edmund Burke to Max Müller and Rudyard Kipling. Too often crit
At the heart of every colonial encounter lies an act of translation. Once dismissed as a derivative process, the new cultural turn in translation studies has opened the field to dynamic considerations of the contexts that shape translations and that, in turn, reveal translation’s truer function as a locus of power. In Imperial Babel, Padma Rangarajan explores translation’s complex role in shaping literary and political relationships between India and Britain....
You easily download any file type for your device.Imperial Babel: Translation, Exoticism, and the Long Nineteenth Century | Padma Rangarajan. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
