Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation

by Carles Prado-Fonts

This transcultural study of cultural production brings to light the ways Spanish literature imagined China by relying on English- and French-language sources. Carles Prado-Fonts examines how the simultaneous dependence on and obscuring of translation in these cross-cultural representations created the illusion of a homogeneous West. He argues that Orientalism became an instrument of hegemony not only between "the West and the rest" but also within...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810144778
• ISBN13: 9780810144774
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"