Description: Ranging across a variety of academic disciplines, including art history, cartography, and Anglo-Saxon and Arabic studies, this volume highlights the connections between medieval and postcolonial studies through the exploration of a common theme: translation in its broadest sense as a mechanism of, and metaphor for, cultures in contact, confrontation and competition. The essays form a set of case studies of translation as the transfer of language, culture, and power.
Review Quotes: "This book examines intersections between medieval and postcolonial studies by considering discourses of translation as a primary metaphor for the clash of cultures. His work will benefit scholars interested in postcolonial dialectic." CHOICE