Culture and Translation

Catalog description

This course examines intercultural issues central to translation studies today. Examining translation in different cultures and historical contexts, the course highlights the significant role that translators have played in enriching national languages, spreading religious creeds, and framing intellectual and political encounters across linguistic communities. Students are introduced to the current theoretical debates on translation and intercultural communication, including, among others, translation and globalization, translation in multicultural settings, immigrant literature, and postcolonial studies. Special emphasis is placed on the role of translation in the construction of the foreign as a primary tool of representing/misrepresenting cultural others. Offered spring only.