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Postcoloniality, translation, and the Bible in Africa / edited by Musa W. Dube and R.S. Wafula.

Contributor(s): Dube Shomanah, Musa W, 1964- [editor.] | Wafula, R. S. (Robert Sammy), 1968- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, 2017Copyright date: 2017Description: xxvii, 208 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781498295147; 1498295142; 9781498295161; 1498295169Subject(s): Bible -- Translating -- Africa | Bible -- Postcolonial criticism -- Africa | PostcolonialismLOC classification: BS449 | .P68 2017Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Consuming a colonial cultural bomb : translating "Badimo" into "Demons" in Setswana Bible / Musa W. Dube -- Postcolonial translation theory and the Swahili Bible / Aloo Mojola -- A postcolonial analysis of Bible translation and its effectiveness in shaping and enhancing the discourse of colonialism and the discourse of resistance : the Gikuyu New Testament / Johnson Kiriaku Kinyua -- Translating the Divine : the case of Modimo in the Setswana Bible / Gomang Sedratwa Ntloedibe-Kuswani -- How local divine powers were suppressed : the case of Mwari of the Shona / Dora R. Mbuwayesango -- (Con)figuring gender in Bible translation : cultural, translational and gender critical intersections / Jeremy Punt -- The Bible in the bush : the first 'literate' Batswana Bible readers / Musa W. Dube -- Novel Biblical translation of Ng ug i wa Thiong o / Malebogo Kgalemang -- On reading the inculturated-hybridized Bibles of the African post-colony : charting the way forward / R.S. Wafula.

Includes bibliographical references.

Consuming a colonial cultural bomb : translating "Badimo" into "Demons" in Setswana Bible / Musa W. Dube -- Postcolonial translation theory and the Swahili Bible / Aloo Mojola -- A postcolonial analysis of Bible translation and its effectiveness in shaping and enhancing the discourse of colonialism and the discourse of resistance : the Gikuyu New Testament / Johnson Kiriaku Kinyua -- Translating the Divine : the case of Modimo in the Setswana Bible / Gomang Sedratwa Ntloedibe-Kuswani -- How local divine powers were suppressed : the case of Mwari of the Shona / Dora R. Mbuwayesango -- (Con)figuring gender in Bible translation : cultural, translational and gender critical intersections / Jeremy Punt -- The Bible in the bush : the first 'literate' Batswana Bible readers / Musa W. Dube -- Novel Biblical translation of Ng ug i wa Thiong o / Malebogo Kgalemang -- On reading the inculturated-hybridized Bibles of the African post-colony : charting the way forward / R.S. Wafula.

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