Writing in the 'Contact Zone' : the problem of post-colonial translation. A study of the 'Afrikanissmo-Project' and Tsitsi Dangarembga's novel Nervous Condtions in German

Post-colonial translations are located in 'contact zones'. They mediate in the interface of disparate cultures and languages. The multiple determinations and effects of this decisive mediation process are examined in a close reading of the Afrikanissimo-project and the translation of Tsitsi Dangarembga's novel Nervous Conditions. They represent an attempt to engage 'Africa' through literature from a German perspective. Such dialogue is caught in the aporetic tension between the preservation of linguistic and cultural difference of the foreign text and the domestication of the cultural other by dominant values in the target-language culture.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of English Language and Literature

Year dc:date.issued

2001

Author dc:creator

• Steiner, Christina

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7887

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/7887