Contemporary Translation Philosophy: Cannibalism or Symbiosis?
Contemporary Translation Philosophy: Cannibalism or Symbiosis?

Summary/Abstract: „In a recent issue of Interlitteraria, Dorothy Figueira provides examples of how postcolonial literary theory in its postmodern manifestations has lost almost any connection with postcolonial literature itself (Figueira 2005). Instead of helping to understand intellectual and spiritual processes of the “third world”, the fashioncreators of postcolonial theory derive from their by today withered postulates fantasies rewritten in ever more sophisticated language, whose purpose, as Figueira suggests, is hardly any other than to strengthen institutionally their position at US universities. What really takes place in literary and cultural life of the “third world”, does not seem to interest theory. In the same issue of Interlitteraria, the Moroccan researcher Ismail”[…]

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