Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures (PDF)

By: Edited by Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams

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Synopsis: This collection of original essays is dedicated to the intersections between medieval and postcolonial studies. Ranging across a variety of academic disciplines, from art history to cartography, and from Anglo-Saxon to Arabic studies, this volume highlights the connections between medieval and postcolonial studies by exploring a theme common to both areas of study: translation as a mechanism of and metaphor for cultures in contact, confrontation, and competition. Drawing upon the widespread medieval trope of translatio studii et imperii (the translation of culture and empire), this collection engages the concept of translation from its most narrow, lexicographic sense, to the broader applications of its literal meaning, “to carry across.” It carries the multilingual, multicultural realities of medieval studies to postcolonial analyses of the coercive and subversive powers of cultural translation, offering a set of case studies of translation as the transfer of language, culture, and power.

Book Quality:: Excellent
ISBN-13:: 9780521172271
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Date of Addition:: 11/02/18
Copyrighted By:: Cambridge University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Debbie Morton
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.