World Literature in Translation: A Threat to the Sovereignty of the Original?

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Written by Anouar El Younssi

Some critics in the field of translation studies contend that translation is a suspect practice. They underscore that a work of translation at best cannot and should not be treated as an equal to the original, alerting us to the yet unbridgeable gap between the source and target texts and the respective cultures that inform or inhabit them.

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