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Keywords: translation; world literature; language politics; dialect; racial justice; linguistic apartheid
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Part of The Work of World Literature Containing:
The Work of World Literature / Francesco Giusti, Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Untranslatability and the Challenge of World Literature / Derek Attridge
World Literature and the Problem of Postcolonialism / Lorna Burns
Transcontextual Gestures / Francesco Giusti
The World after Fiction / Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Extracting Indigeneity / Rashmi Varma
Being Taught Something World-Sized / Dirk Wiemann
Working Conditions / Jarad Zimbler
Afterword
Title
Afterword
Subtitle
Towards a Theory of Reparative Translation
Author(s)
Emily Apter
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-19_09
Is Part Of
The Work of World Literature
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
April 27, 2021
Subject
translation
world literature
language politics
dialect
racial justice
linguistic apartheid
Rights
© by the author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Language
en-GB
page start
209
page end
228
Source
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>