Translation and Subjectivity: On Japan and Cultural Nationalism (Public Worlds) - Softcover

Sakai, Naoki; Morris, Meaghan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816628637 ISBN 13: 9780816628636

Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

An excursion across the boundaries of language and culture, this provocative book suggests that national identity and cultural politics are, in fact, "all in the translation." Translation, we tend to think, represents another language in all its integrity and unity. Naoki Sakai turns this thinking on its head, and shows how this unity of language really only exists in our manner of representing translation. In analyses of translational transactions and with a focus on the ethnic, cultural, and national identities of modern Japan, he explores the cultural politics inherent in translation.
Through the schematic representation of translation, one language is rendered in contrast to another as if the two languages are clearly different and distinct. And yet, Sakai contends, such differences and distinctions between ethnic or national languages (or cultures) are only defined once translation has already rendered them commensurate. His essays thus address translation as a means of figuring (or configuring) difference.

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Naoki Sakai is associate professor of Japanese literature and history at Cornell University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0816628637
• ISBN 13: 9780816628636
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
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