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If we expect translation to reproduce the totality of the semantics and affective uses of the original text, then we believe that translation must be loyal to the seminal language system, rather than letting the discourse travel and undertake the adventure of discovering - or creating - a new set of meaning according to the politics of the translation itself. Rigid loyalty to the original in the translated version was, in effect, the intentionality of the translation of the doctrines and precept
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― Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations
― Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations
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To put the point in a different way, the only truly original text is one that has never been read.
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― The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki, dennis washburn
― The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki, dennis washburn
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