Translation and the Colonial Desire for Transparency

Translation and the Colonial Desire for Transparency

  • Mon Apr 7 2014, 4 PM – 5:30 PM
  • C.K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research

The talk discusses the ways in which a Korean writer and two Japanese writers reveal the colonizer’s unease over translation as the necessary but imperfect mediation that frustrates transparent communication with the colonized.