The predicament of ideas in culture: Translation and historiography

History and Theory

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-60

  Howland, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

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EID: 33846963244     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2303.00229     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Eric Cheyfitz, The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 41-58, and chapter 3
2. Tejaswini Niranjana, Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), 18-32
3. Niranjana, Siting Translation, 38f
4. Vicente L. Rafael, Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society under Early Spanish Rule (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988), 1-7
5. Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
6. and Derek Peterson, "Colonizing Language? Missionaries and Gikuyu Dictionaries, 1904 and 1914," History in Africa 24 (1997), 257-272
7. See Lotte Mulligan, Judith Richards, and John Graham, "Intentions and Conventions: A Critique of Quentin Skinner's Method for the Study of the History of Ideas," Political Studies 27 (1979), 84-98
8. and James H. Tully's defense of Skinner, "Review Article: The Pen is a Mighty Sword: Quentin Skinner's Analysis of Politics," British Journal of Political Science 13 (1983), 489-509
9. Lydia H. Liu, Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity-China, 1900-1937 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), xv-xvi
10. and Benjamin Schwartz, In Search of Wealth and Power: Yen Fu and the West (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964)
11. Frederic C. Schafter, Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998), 1-10
12. Roger Hart, "Translating the Untranslatable: From Copula to Incommensurable Worlds," in Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations, ed. Lydia H. Liu (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999), 57-59
13. Naoki Sakai, Translation and Subjectivity: On "Japan" and Cultural Nationalism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 2
14. for an alternative analysis of the speech situation, see Roman Jakobson, "Linguistics and Poetics," in Style in Language, ed. Thomas A. Sebeok (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1960), 350-377
15. Sakai, Translation and Subjectivity, 45f., 56-59
16. Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time (Cambridge, Mass,: MIT Press, 1985), 159-197
17. See Douglas Howland, Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001), 18-30
18. Melvin Richter, "Appreciating a Contemporary Classic: The Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe and Future Scholarship," in The Meaning of Historical Terms and Concepts: New Studies on Begriffsgeschichte, ed. Hartmut Lehmann and Melvin Richter (Washington. D.C.: German Historical Institute, 1996), 10