Two are the starting points of this book. On the one hand, the use of Doña Marina/La Malinche as a symbol of the violation of the Americas by the Spanish conquerors as well as a metaphor of her treason to the Mexican people. On the other, the role of the translations of Bartolom…
Two are the starting points of this book. On the one hand, the use of Doña Marina/La Malinche as a symbol of the violation of the Americas by the Spanish conquerors as well as a metaphor of her treason to the Mexican people. On the other, the role of the translations of Bartolom…
Translation and the Manipulation of Difference explores the question of difference in translation and offers an extended critique of the advocacy of foreignizing translation as a practice that does not minimize the alterity of the foreign text, and could therefore serve as an an…
La langue mondiale: traduction et domination
La langue mondiale: traduction et domination
"Parmi les milliers de langues qui existent ou ont existé, il semble qu'il y en ait toujours eu une qui ait été plus « prestigieuse » que ses contemporaines. Le latin fut en ce sens une langue dominante jusqu'au XVIIIe siècle, le français en devint une à son tour jusqu'au XXe si…