1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455667703321

Autore

Horne Gerald

Titolo

Race woman [[electronic resource] ] : the lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois / / Gerald Horne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8147-4457-5

0-585-43462-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/896073/0092

B

Soggetti

African American women

African Americans

African American women political activists

African Americans - Politics and government - 20th century

African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century

African American authors

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Perspectives; 1 Family; 2 On Her Journey Now; 3 The Middle of Her Journey; 4 Crossroads; 5 Shirley Graham Du Bois; 6 Home; 7 On the Road Again; 8 Mother, Africa; 9 Detour; 10 Black, to the Left; 11 The End of Her Journey; Notes; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

One of the most intriguing activists and artists of the twentieth century, Shirley Graham Du Bois also remains one of the least studied and understood. In Race Woman , Gerald Horne draws a revealing portrait of this controversial figure who championed the civil rights movement in America, the liberation struggles in Africa and the socialist struggles in Maoist China. Through careful analysis and use of personal correspondence, interviews, and previously unexamined documents, Horne explores her work as a Harlem Renaissance playwright, biographer, composer, teacher, novelist, Left political acti



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452383703321

Titolo

Eurocentrism in translation studies / / edited by Luc van Doorslaer, Lessius University College ; Peter Flynn, University of Leuven

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

90-272-7163-1

Descrizione fisica

1 recurso en linea (139 p.)

Collana

Benjamins current topics, , 1874-0081 ; ; volume 54

Altri autori (Persone)

DoorslaerLuc van <1964->

FlynnPeter (Translator)

Disciplina

418/.02071

Soggetti

Translating and interpreting - Study and teaching

Eurocentrism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Eurocentrism in Translation Studies; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; On constructing continental views on translation studies; References; Macro- and micro-turns in translation studies; Part I: Macro-turns in translation studies; European definitions of translation; Non-European definitions of translation; New directions in the Americas; Part II: Micro-turns in translation studies; Multilingual United States; Conclusion; References; Continentalism and the invention of traditions in translation studies; 1. Eurocentrism and the international turn in translation studies

2. Americentrism in translation studies?3. American identities; 4. Further complications; Concluding remarks; References; How eurocentric is Europe?; Introduction; 1. Trajectories of thought; 1.1 The travels of concepts and approaches; 2. Trajectories of practice and related discourse; Conclusion; References; Beyond "Eurocentrism"?; Introduction: Understanding the politics of "beyond"; The uses of 'Eurocentrism' in translation studies; Toward a revaluation of the instrumental nature of translation; References; The representation of agents of translation in (South) Africa

Introducing the encounterEncountering Madonella; Encountering



Gentzler; Encountering the representation; Representing the encounter; References; On fictional turns, fictionalizing twists and the invention of the Americas; Introduction; From a fictional turn to the fictionalizing twist; Fictionalizing the interpreter; Telling it how it was?: Translation, history and the invention of the Americas/Europe; Invented Europe or invented Europes?; References

Sommario/riassunto

In his 2008 book, Translation and Identity in the Americas, Edwin Gentzler proposed a "fictional turn" to refer to translation in connection with the construction of identity in the Americas, a highly positive view of the role played by this activity since the arrival of the Europeans. This paper proposes a "fictionalizing twist," that is, a complementary approach that would attest to the less positive use of translation in the relation between Europe and the Americas on the one hand, and among European nations on the other. Thus, I examine how translation and Translation Studies have c