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Hardback. New. The essays in this book explore the vital role translation has played in defining, changing and redefining linguistic, cultural, ethnic and political identities in several nations of the South Pacific. While in other parts of the world postcolonial scholars have scrutinized the role and history of translation and exposed its close relationship with the colonizers, this has not yet happened in the specific region covered in this collection. In translation studies the Pacific region is terra incognita. The writers of this volume of essays reveal that in the Pacific, as in all other once colonized parts of the world, colonialism and translation went hand in hand. The unsettling power of translation is described as it effected change for better or for worse. While the Pacific Islanders' encounter with the Europeans has previously been described as having a 'Fatal Impact', the authors of these essays are further able to demonstrate that the Pacific Islanders were not…
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For Better or for Worse: Translation as a Tool for Change in the South Pacific Hardcover - 2017
by Sabine Fenton
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- Title For Better or for Worse: Translation as a Tool for Change in the South Pacific
- Author Sabine Fenton
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- Pages 8
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- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2017
- ISBN 9781138159150 / 1138159158
- Dewey Decimal Code 418.020
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