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Culture(s) and Authenticity - The Politics of Translation and the Poetics of Imitation (Hardcover, New edition)
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Culture(s) and Authenticity - The Politics of Translation and the Poetics of Imitation (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Cultures in Translation, 1
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This book addresses epistemological and political aspects of the
discursive pursuit of authenticity and various ways in which the
inauthentic is devalued and marginalized. The essays critically
analyze various means by which the authentic is searched for,
staged, admired, dismissed, replicated or simply taken for granted.
What is at work in such discursive practices is a poetics of
imitation. This is seen as a paradoxical kind of poetics which
renounces the authenticity of the created text for the sake of its
semi-religious offering to the origin. Such a divination of the
Authentic posits translation as an idolatrous act accompanied by a
suspicion of its simultaneously being iconoclastic.
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