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Emily Apter
Afterword
Towards a Theory of Reparative Translation
Keywords: translation; world literature; language politics; dialect; racial justice; linguistic apartheid
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Afterword
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Towards a Theory of Reparative Translation
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Emily Apter
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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27 April 2021
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translation
world literature
language politics
dialect
racial justice
linguistic apartheid
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© by the author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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209
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228
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The Work of World Literature, ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson, Cultural Inquiry, 19 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021-04-27), pp. 209–28
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Cite as:
Emily Apter, ‘Afterword: Towards a Theory of Reparative Translation’, in The Work of World Literature, ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson, Cultural Inquiry, 19 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021), pp. 209-28 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-19_09>