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Titel: Translation in African Contexts
Zustand: Neu
Subtitle: Postcolonial Texts, Queer Sexuality, and Cosmopolitan Fluency
Autor: Evan Maina Mwangi
Produktart: Gebundene Ausgabe
EAN: 9781606353219
ISBN: 9781606353219
Verlag: Kent State University Press
Genre: Language & Reference
Thematik: Literary Criticism
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.10.2017
Description: Author Evan Maina Mwangi explores the intersection of translation, sexuality, and cosmopolitan ethics in African literature. Usually seen as the preserve of literature published by Euro-American metropolitan outlets for Western consumption, cultural translation is also a recurrent theme in postcolonial African texts produced primarily for local circulation and sometimes in African languages. Mwangi illustrates how such texts allude to various forms of translation to depict the ethical relations to foreigners and the powerless, including sexual minorities. He also explains the popularity of uent models of translation in African literature, regardless of the energetic critique of such models by Western-based postcolonial theorists.

While bringing to the foreground texts that have received little critical attention in African literary studies, Translation in African Contexts engages a wide range of foundational and postcolonial translation theorists. It considers a rich variety of works, including East African translations of Shakespeare, writings by Ng?g? wa Thiong’o and Gakaara wa Wanja?, a popular novel by Charles Mangua, and a stage adaptation by the Tanzanian playwright Amandina Lihamba, among others.
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellungsland und -region: US
Höhe: 235mm
Länge: 156mm
Buchreihe: Translation Studies
Title Format: Gebundene Ausgabe

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