
From Language to Language
by Dylan Temel
Title:
From Language to Language
Author:
Dylan Temel
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
128 pages
Publisher:
Other Press LLC
ISBN-13:
9781635423938
EAN:
9781635423938
Publication Date:
30/09/2025
Classifications:
Language: reference and general
Weight (g):
382
Dimensions (mm):
145 x 217 x 17
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Informed by his own multicultural background - African, French, and American - Souleymane Bachir Diagne interrogates the practice of translation in this thoughtful text. Although translation often produces a relationship of profound inequality between dominant and dominated languages, it can also be a source of dialogue and exchange, including in situations of asymmetry, particularly regarding colonialism, where the interpreter becomes a true cultural mediator. To praise translation, ''the language of languages,'' is to celebrate its plurality and equality, because to translate is to give hospitality in one language to what has been thought in another. It is to create reciprocity, a shared sense of humanity, and to imagine a positive version of the Tower of Babel.










