Lost In Translation? Tracing Linguistic and Economic Transactions In Three Texts
Lost In Translation? Tracing Linguistic and Economic Transactions In Three Texts
This chapter focuses on reading three brief texts or stories—all of them concerning loss and translation—to talk about the complicated relations between language and money in the context of imperialism and Spivak's planetary love. Furthermore, it calls attention to the irreducible losses involved in any translation—an unavoidable effect that, however, should not lead to the abandonment of translation and language learning, but rather to their supplementation by a love that recognizes the “ethical singularity” of each and every encounter.
Keywords: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, loss, translation, language, money, imperialism, planetary love
Fordham Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
