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...

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Publicado en:Intersections: Gender & Sexuality in Asia & the Pacific no. 53; pp. 21 - 41
Autor principal: Raj, Puja
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Intersections May2026
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