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... Siri Nergaard, editor of Translation: A Transdisciplinary Journal , interviewed Vicente Rafael in May 2013 at the Nida School of Translation Studies in Misano Adriatico, Italy. Rafael explains how he became interested in translation when he came upon the deep connection between translation...

... Marxism postcolonial studies capitalism the West and the non-West translation Eurocentrism ...

... supplement to all sorts of exchange and expression and foreground the question of untranslatability, that is, the persistence of an insurgent element within language that resists its reduction into instruments for systems of meaning, ideologies, and warfare. historical imagination translation studies...

...Translating Lives This chapter offers a set of reflections on the “crisis” of area studies in the post–cold war United States. Setting aside the institutional aspects of this crisis, it delves into the contingent and accidental ways by which practitioners of area studies in the United States...

...” histories, this book makes use of “little” and “interstitial” histories to illuminate the planetary history of multiplicity and difference. Richard Wright Bandung Conference The Color Curtain modernisms modernity postcolonialism translation studies ...

... This chapter of book explores the advantage that particular forms of anthropology have for comparative analysis and seeks to ground the study of the fragment theoretically. Anthropology is the only social science that reflects on Western ethnocentrism and takes the problem of translation...

... Gabriella Coleman describes herself alternately as a translator, a broker, a gopher, and a trickster as she responds to solicitations by journalists. Studying a secretive network of hackers rendered both her knowledge and her mediation particularly coveted. Her public contribution mainly...

... Richard Wright’s The Color Curtain , with its genesis status in Afro-Asian studies and reception as prophetic of major concerns of postcolonial and transnational literary and cultural studies, has come to supplant the largely unknown historical archive that surrounds Wright’s 1955 Indonesian...

... The seventh set of seven letters of Mu marks the movement of Frantz Fanon’s studies in freedom, desire, and madness in revolutionary contexts of anti-black racism and postcolonial violence. Transliterating and dystranslating Fanon’s writing among French, Korean, and English, each...

... This chapter offers an overview of Stuart Hall’s approach to diaspora, placing the emphasis on his conjunctural analysis of the “ethnic signifier” as it is articulated in different social formations, such as postindependence Jamaica and post-Empire Britain. It is argued that the cultural studies...

... recast their lives as ongoing translations, both cultural and linguistic. Their reflections indicate how autobiographies are about self-becoming to the extent that they entail being and speaking otherwise. area studies United States contingency Benedict Anderson Arjun Appadurai ...

... The introduction presents the methodology of the book, which centers on psychoanalytic approaches to voice as part object and listening as distracted or wavering. This translates into a study that is not musicological or biographical but oriented, rather, to the Lacanian future perfect...

... the problem of translation seriously. The chapter gives a detailed critique of quantitative analysis of nationalism and of evolutionary cognitive understandings of religion and shows the superiority of a more interpretive anthropology in the study of nationalism and religion. It thus gives not only a critique...

... E. Patrick Johnson details the rich blossoming of black queer studies since the 2005 release of the field-defining anthology Black Queer Studies. Discussing its genealogy, Johnson explains the title of No Tea, No Shade that stems from contemporary black vernacular and black queer popular...

... This chapter is a study of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide as an exploration of the degradation of the subaltern world of the Sundarbans by state and local government projects of modernization and international wildlife preservation movements. It argues that although the novel has faith...

...? Eschewing the conventional segregation of spatialities (Latin American studies versus South Asian studies) that often undergirds the force of the decolonial turn, this chapter engages the emergence of the Samaj in the fraught contexts of colonial Portuguese India. In so doing, the chapter poses one central...

...-sacrificing courtesan Camille, from The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils. The film’s citational strategies are rooted in a history of adaptation, translation, and hybridizing exchanges extending back to the early twentieth century, and formative of a tradition of popular sentimental fiction...