The Cold War regime of translation in Trinidad and Okinawa: Samuel Selvon's A Brighter Sun and Sadao Shinjo's tanka poems.
While the processes of decolonization in the Pacific and the Atlantic regions have been separately analyzed, this paper finds connections between these processes by examining how British and Japanese colonial regimes were reinforced by the US empire and the military, respectively. Here, Naoki Sakai'...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 38 - 57 |
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