Introduction: Agents of translation and Translation Studies

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction: Agents of translation and Translation Studies 1
4. Francisco de Miranda, intercultural forerunner 19
5. Translating cultural paradigms: The role of the Revue Britannique for the first Brazilian fiction writers 43
6. Translation as representation: Fukuzawa Yukichi's representation of the "Others" 63
7. Vizetelly & Company as (ex)change agent: Towards the modernization of the British publishing industry 85
8. Translation within the margin: The "Libraries" of Henry Bohn 107
9. Translating Europe: The case of Ahmed Midhat as an Ottoman agent of translation 131
10. A cultural agent against the forces of culture: Hasan-Âli Yücel 161
11. Limits of freedom: Agency, choice and constraints in the work of the translator 189
12. Cheikh Anta Diop: Translation at the service of history 209
13. The agency of the poets and the impact of their translations: Sur, Poesía Buenos Aires , and Diario de Poesía as aesthetic arenas for twentieth-century Argentine letters 229
14. The role of Haroldo and Augusto de Campos in bringing translation to the fore of literary activity in Brazil 257
15. The theatre translator as a cultural agent: A case study 279
16. Embassy networks: Translating post-war Bosnian poetry into English 301
17. Notes on contributors 327
18. Index 331