Book review Beyond the Western tradition Binghamton: Center for Research in Translation, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2000. viii + 436 pp. ISBN 0890-4758 $35.00 (Translation Perspectives, XI).
Table of contents
This weighty volume, the last under the editorship of Marilyn Gaddis Rose, includes 31 chapters, focusing mainly on postcoloniality, but also on translation theory, history and practice in languages and cultures outside the “chief Eurocentric orbit”. It is organised into the following sections: Cross-cultural Issues; Europe Extended; The Middle East and Africa; Indian Subcontinent and the Far East; Latin American Sphere; and finally, Addendum: Advice for Translating Between Any Two Natural Languages.
References
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1992 Translation as text. London: Kent State University Press.
Nord, Christiane
1991 Text analysis in translation: Theory, methodology and didactic application of a model for translation. Amsterdam: Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur.
1997 Translating as a purposeful activity: Functionalist approaches explained. Manchester: St Jerome.
Venuti, Lawrence
1995 The translator’s invisibility. London: Routledge. 