Date: 06-Dec-2009 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Decentering Translation Studies: Wakabayashi, Kothari (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Decentering Translation Studies
Subtitle: India and beyond
Series Title: Benjamins Translation Library 86
Published: 2009
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Judy Wakabayashi
Editor: Rita Kothari
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027288929 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027288929 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027224309 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027224309 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Abstract:
This book foregrounds practices and discourses of 'translation' in several non-Western traditions. Translation Studies currently reflects the historiography and concerns of Anglo-American and European scholars, overlooking the full richness of translational activities and diverse discourses. The essays in this book, which generally have a historical slant, help push back the geographical and conceptual boundaries of the discipline. They illustrate how distinctive historical, social and philosophical contexts have shaped the ways in which translational acts are defined, performed, viewed, encouraged or suppressed in different linguistic communities. The volume has a particular focus on the multiple contexts of translation in India, but also encompasses translation in Korea, Japan and South Africa, as well as representations of Sufism in different contexts.