.... occupation of Iraq. As an examination of the vexed position of Iraqi translators working for the U.S. military shows, attempts to deploy American notions of translation in war have devolved instead into the circulation of what remains untranslatable and so inassimilable to U.S. imperialist projects...

... 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...

... are seen in the U.S. occupation of Iraq. As an examination of the vexed position of Iraqi translators working for the U.S. military shows, attempts to deploy American notions of translation in war have devolved instead into the circulation of what remains untranslatable and so inassimilable to U.S...