Translation And The Americas

In this ground-breaking new book, Edwin Gentzler, one of the leading US translation experts, tackles the important question of the role played by translation in the shaping of the Americas' Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick, UK Translation is a highly contested site in the Americas where different groups, often with competing literary or political interests, vie for space and approval. In its survey of these multiple and competing groups and its study of the geographic, socio-political and cultural aspects of translation, Edwin Gentzler's book demonstrates that the Americas are a fruitful terrain for the field of translation studies. Building on research from a variety of disciplines including cultural studies, linguistics, feminism and ethnic studies and including case studies from Brazil, Canada and the Caribbean, this book shows that translation is one of the primary means by which a culture is constructed: translation in the Americas is less something that happens between separate and distinct cultures and more something that is capable of establishing those very cultures. Using a variety of texts and addressing minority and oppressed groups within cultures, Translation and the Americas highlights by example the cultural role translation policies play in a discriminatory process: the consequences of which can be social marginalization, loss of identity and psychological trauma. Translation and the Americas will be critical reading for students and scholars of Translation Studies. Edwin Gentzler is the Director of the Translation Center and a Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. He is the author of Contemporary Translation Theories (2001) and Translation and Power , 2002) TRANSLATION STUDIES/ COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/AMERICAN STUDIES/Gentzler, Edwin is the author of 'Translation And The Americas', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415774529 and ISBN 0415774527.