Translation Zone A New Comparative Literature

Name: Translation Zone A New Comparative Literature
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ISBN: 9780691049977

ISBN-10: 0691049971

ISBN-13: 9780691049977

Edition: 2006

Authors: Emily Apter

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Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. InThe Translation Zone, Emily Apter argues that the field of translation studies, habitually confined to a framework of linguistic fidelity to an original, is ripe for expansion as the basis for a new comparative literature. Organized around a series of propositions that range from the idea that nothing is translatable to the idea that everything is translatable,The Translation Zoneexamines the vital role of translation studies in the "invention" of comparative literature as a discipline. Apter emphasizes…

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List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 12/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Twenty Theses on Translation


Introduction


Introduction



Translation after 9/11: Mistranslating the Art of War



Translating Humanism



The Human in the Humanities



Global Translatio: The "Invention" of Comparative Literature, Istanbul, 1933



Saidian Humanism



The Politics of Untranslatability



Nothing Is Translatable



"Untranslatable" Algeria: The Politics of Linguicide



Plurilingual Dogma: Translation by Numbers



Language Wars



Balkan Babel: Language Zones, Military Zones



War and Speech



The Language of Damaged Experience



CNN Creole: Trademark Literacy and Global Language Travel



Conde's Creolite in Literary History



Technologies of Translation



Nature into Data



Translation with No Original: Scandals of Textual Reproduction



Everything Is Translatable


Conclusion



A New Comparative Literature


Notes


Index