Translation and interwining borders: the case of Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o, autotranslation, translation ethics, othernessAbstract
This paper aims at discussing how translation was present in the work of the Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Using theories about the autotranslation and ideas from Antoine Berman, here I try to show how translation intertwined the ways of that author, constituting a strategy so that he could handle, in a dialogic manner, the different cultures from and to he makes his work. I noted that Ngugi found in the ethical exercise of translation, an in-between, through which he could handle two distinct traditions.
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