Translation and métissage

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Introduction 1
6. I. Translation studies in context
7. Translation and society 13
8. Language and translation 27
9. Translation studies, ethnography and the production of knowledge 39
10. Trafficking in words 57
11. Unsafe at any speed? Some unfinished reflections on the ‘cultural turn’ in translation studies 73
12. II. Writing and translation
13. Translation and displacement 87
14. Mark Twain vs. William-Little Hughes 95
15. ‘A Single Brushstroke’, writing through translation 107
16. Translation rights and the philosophy of translation 117
17. Seeds of discontent 133
18. III. Contexts of translation
19. Translation and social praxis in ancient and medieval India (with special reference to Orissa) 153
20. From regional into pan-Indian 175
21. Revealing the ‘soul of which nation?’ 187
22. Language as sharp as a knife 201
23. IV. Culture(s) in translation
24. Literally ambiguous 215
25. Translation terminable, interminable 229
26. Translation and métissage 245
27. Double take 253
28. Translation as culture 263
29. Translating culture vs. cultural translation 277
30. References 289
31. Index 309