Critical Translation Studies

by Douglas Robinson

Book Overview

This book offers an introduction for Translation Studies (TS) scholars to Critical Translation Studies (CTS), a cultural-studies approach to the study of translation spearheaded by Sakai Naoki and Lydia H. Liu, with an implicit focus on translation as a social practice shaped by power relations in society. The central claim in CTS is that translators help condition what TS scholars take to be the primal scene of translation: two languages, two...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036741063X
• ISBN13: 9780367410636
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"