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New Publication: Beyond the Untranslatable

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New Publication:

Title: Beyond the Untranslatable: Theorizing Postcolonial Translation

Editors: Talal Asad, Jun’ichi Isomae, Naoki Sakai, Katsuya Hirano, Gouranga Charan Pradhan

Content:

Introduction: On the Heritage of Postcolonial Studies: Translation of the Untranslatable

Part 1: Translating the Untranslatable

 1. Translating the Untranslatable: Inheritance of the Postcolonial Studies

2. Politics of Translation in East Asia: Natsume Sōseki and his idea of Untranslatability

3. How to Count Languages; How to Classify Humanity

Part 2: Ambivalent Power of Translations

 4. What Is It to Be Secular?

 5. Settler-Colonial Translation: “Civilization” and the Ainu Voice

 6. Translating God(s): Religious Studies After the Postcolonial Moment

 7. China and the Conditions of Spatial Revolution: Twentieth-Century China as an Object of Thought

Part 3: Round Table: Translating the Untranslatable

8. Round Table: Translating the Untranslatable

 Epilogue: Reflections on the Question of Untranslatability

Read more: https://www.routledge.com/Beyond-the-Untranslatable-Theorizing-Postcolonial-Translation/Asad-Isomae-Sakai-Hirano-CharanPradhan/p/book/9781041123767