Product Description: The essays gathered here must speak for themselves. Nonetheless, in their different ways, they address a common core of questions arising from the global nature of problems concerning history, ideology and identity. They do so by employing those strategies of literary investigation that have emerged over the last four decades, in particular by deconstructing texts to expose their internal contradictions and patterns of opposition, which are so important in determining their ideological standpoint...read more

Product Description: The title of this collection, Culture-bound Translation and Language in the Global Era, suggests the wide scope and spirit of our culture and times. The essays gathered here are divided under two headings: Translation and Language, five on each area, making up Part One and Part Two of this book...read more