Epistemic Violence 2.0: The Algorithmic Censorship of Selected Asian Feminist Narratives in Translation.
The paper draws on feminist critiques of translation bias and postcolonial translation studies to combine theoretically driven analysis with a close reading of comparative translations produced by human translators and machine translation platforms. This approach highlights instances in which politi...
| Publicado en: | Intersections: Gender & Sexuality in Asia & the Pacific no. 53; pp. 21 - 41 |
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Intersections
May2026
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| Sumario: | The paper draws on feminist critiques of translation bias and postcolonial translation studies to combine theoretically driven analysis with a close reading of comparative translations produced by human translators and machine translation platforms. This approach highlights instances in which political metaphors, poetic silences and gendered language are mistranslated or neutralised altering the meaning of feminist discourse. Using feminist literary works in Hindi and Persian as examples of misinterpretations such as Google’s mistranslation of Hindi gendered pronouns and the softening or replacement of radical feminist language with apolitical phrasings the paper postulates a critical humanities intervention rather than presenting an empirical evaluation of machine translation. It contends that translation is not a neutral act but rather a site of ideological framing where some narratives are emphasised while others are weakened or eliminated. |
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