30.379, Books: Translation Revisited: Ouédraogo, Diawara, Macamo (eds.)

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Subject: Translation Revisited: Ouédraogo, Diawara, Macamo (eds.)

 


Title: Translation Revisited 
Subtitle: Contesting the Sense of African Social Realities 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
	

Book URL: https://cambridgescholars.com/translation-revisited/ 


Editor: Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo
Editor: Mamadou Diawara
Editor: Elísio S. Macamo

Hardback: ISBN:  9781527514133 Pages: 551 Price: U.K. £ 81.99


Abstract:

How realistic is it to expect translation to render the world intelligible in
a context shaped by different historical trajectories and experiences? Can we
rely on human universals to translate through the unique and specific webs of
meaning that languages represent? If knowledge production is a kind of
translation, then it is fair to assume that the possibility of translation has
largely rested on the idea that Western experience is the repository of these
human universals against the background of which different human experiences
can be rendered intelligible. The problem with this assumption, however, is
that there are limits to Western claims to universalism, mainly because these
claims were at the service of the desire to justify imperial expansion. This
book addresses issues arising from these claims to universalism in the process
of producing knowledge about diverse African social realities. It shows that
the idea of knowledge production as translation can be usefully deployed to
inquire into how knowledge of Africa translates into an imperial attempt at
changing local norms, institutions and spiritual values. Translation, in this
sense, is the normalization of meanings issuing from a local historical
experience claiming to be universal. The task of producing knowledge of
African social realities cannot be adequately addressed without a prior
critical engagement with how translation has come to shape our ways of
rendering Africa intelligible.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Translation


Written In: English  (eng)

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