Homeless Theories, Stateless Texts: Using Homi Bhabha to Reflect on Language and Translation
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https://doi.org/10.26512/belasinfieis.v10.n4.2021.36264Keywords:
Translation. Language. Nation. Post-colonial. Globalization.Abstract
The starting point of this paper is the belief that translation as it is done today needs to seriously take cultural and historical aspects into account, and its objective is to bring to the fore a discussion on the need for both the linguistic processes involved in the translation of theoretical works, and the translator, to become more visible. What relationships lie hidden within this old endeavor, which hangs on the alleged correspondence and equivalence of languages, and why does it fall on Comparative Literature to deal with these matters? How could the vacuum brought forth by the pressing issues of the globalized world possibly affect the reception of texts, and why should we worry about it? These questions will be discussed in the light of Homi Bhabha's “The Location of Culture” (2008) and its Portuguese edition published by UFMG, keeping in view the discussion on the acceptance of post-colonial theory in Brazil and the tensions inherent to the activity of translation.
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