Translation and epistemicide : racialization of languages in the Americas

Translation and epistemicide : racialization of languages in the Americas / Joshua M. Price.

"Translation has facilitated colonialism from the fifteenth century to the present day. Epistemicide, which involves destroying, marginalizing, or banishing Indigenous, subaltern, and counter-hegemonic knowledges, is one result. In the Americas, it is a racializing process. But in the hands of...

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Main Author: Price, Joshua M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2023].
Subjects:
Translating and interpreting > Social aspects > America.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Colonization.
Racism in language.
sociology of knowledge.
colonization.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Racism in language
Colonization
Knowledge, Sociology of
Translating and interpreting > Social aspects
America
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Translation and Epistemicide
  • Colonization and Commensuration: Asymmetries in the Making of Bilingual Dictionaries
  • The Anguish of Decolonial Translation: José María Arguedas and Walter Benjamin
  • Translation as Terrorism?
  • Translating "Performance" in Latin America
  • La Jotería: Stereoscopic Readings Against Epistemicide
  • Conclusion: An Ethics and Politics of Bewilderment.

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