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1. Babel: or, the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

Book cover for "Babel"
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Author:
Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.)
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Formats:
Book, Large Print, OverDrive eBook
Description:
"From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious...