Translation and Geography

<p><em>Translation and Geography</em> investigates how translation has radically shaped the way the West has mapped the world.</p><p>Groundbreaking in its approach and relevant across a range of disciplines from translation studies and comparative literature to geography and history this book makes a compelling case for a form of cultural translation that reframes the contributions of language-based translation analysis.</p><p>Focusing on the different yet intertwined translation processes involved in the development of the Western spatial imaginary Federico Italiano examines a series of literary works and their translations across languages media and epochs encompassing:</p><ul> <li>poems</li> <li>travel narratives</li> <li>nautical fictions</li> <li>colonial discourse</li> <li>exilic visions</li> </ul><p>Drawing on case studies and readings ranging from the Latin of the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Latin American poetry this is key reading for translation theory and comparative/world literature courses.</p>