Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation

by Carles Prado-Fonts

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This transcultural study of cultural production brings to light the ways Spanish literature imagined China by relying on English- and French-language sources. Carles Prado-Fonts examines how the simultaneous dependence on and obscuring of translation in these cross-cultural representations created the illusion of a homogeneous West. He argues that Orientalism became an instrument of hegemony not only between "the West and the rest" but also within...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0810144778

ISBN13:9780810144774

Release Date:June 2022

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:1.22 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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