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For Better or for Worse - Translation as a Tool for Change in the South Pacific (Hardcover)
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For Better or for Worse - Translation as a Tool for Change in the South Pacific (Hardcover)
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The essays in this book explore the vital role translation has
played in defining, changing and redefining linguistic, cultural,
ethnic and political identities in several nations of the South
Pacific. While in other parts of the world postcolonial scholars
have scrutinized the role and history of translation and exposed
its close relationship with the colonizers, this has not yet
happened in the specific region covered in this collection. In
translation studies the Pacific region is terra incognita. The
writers of this volume of essays reveal that in the Pacific, as in
all other once colonized parts of the world, colonialism and
translation went hand in hand. The unsettling power of translation
is described as it effected change for better or for worse. While
the Pacific Islanders' encounter with the Europeans has previously
been described as having a 'Fatal Impact', the authors of these
essays are further able to demonstrate that the Pacific Islanders
were not only victims but also played an active role in the
cross-cultural events they were party to and in shaping their own
destinies. Examples of the role of translation in effecting change
- for better or for worse - abound in the history of the nations of
the Pacific. These stories are told here in order to bring this
region into the mainstream scholarly attention of postcolonial and
translation studies.
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