Between Languages and Cultures

Download or read book Between Languages and Cultures written by Anuradha Dingwaney and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1996-01-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated texts are often either uncritically consumed by readers, teacher, and scholars or seen to represent an ineluctable loss, a diminishing of original texts. Translation, however, is a cultural practice, influenced also by social and political imperatives, which can open more doors than it closes. The essays in this book show how the act of translation, when vigilantly and critically attended to, becomes a means for active interrogation.