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Translation and Epistemicide Racialization of Languages in the Americas


Free Download Joshua Martin Price, "Translation and Epistemicide: Racialization of Languages in the Americas"
English | ISBN: 0816547823 | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Translation has facilitated colonialism from the fifteenth century to the present day. Epistemicide, which involves destroying, marginalizing, or banishing Indigenous, subaltern, and counter-hegemonic knowledges, is one result. In the Americas, it is a racializing process. But in the hands of subaltern translators and interpreters, translation has also been used as a decolonial method.

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