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ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-5082
Access Type
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Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Comparative Literature
Degree Type
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2020
Month Degree Awarded
February
Abstract
My thesis is an analysis of my own translation of a chapter from Dominik Nagl's legal history 'Grenzfälle,' which addresses questions of citizenship and nationality in the context of the German colonies in Africa and the South Pacific. My analysis focuses primarily on strategies that I used in an effort to preserve the strangeness of a linguistic context that is, in many ways, "foreign" to twenty first-century North Americans while also striving to avoid reproducing the violence embedded in language that is historically laden with extreme power disparities.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/15786230
First Advisor
Moira Inghilleri
Second Advisor
Corine Tachtiris
Third Advisor
Andrew Donson
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Keady, Joseph, "A Translation of Dominik Nagl’s Grenzfälle with an Introductory Analysis of the Translation Process" (2020). Masters Theses. 881.
https://doi.org/10.7275/15786230
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/881