Interpreting the Amistad Case: How Interpreters and Translators Make and Shape History
How Interpreters and Translators Make and Shape History
- Editore:
BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC
- Collana:
- Literatures, Cultures, Transla
- EAN:
9781501394607
- ISBN:
1501394606
- Pagine:
- 208
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Libro Interpreting the Amistad Case: How Interpreters and Translators Make and Shape History di Jeanette Zaragoza de León
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"Interpreting The Amistad Trials traces the signal importance of interpreters and translators in the famous 19th-century Amistad case and discusses how race, ethnicity, slavery, and colonialism shaped this story. From the recruitment process to the various oral to sign languages that mediated linguistically in the Africans' life inside and outside the courtroom, and from evidentiary documents to fraudulent translations to credible testimonies, this book demonstrates the crucial importance of translation and interpretation in the Amistad plot and outcome"--
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