Zionism, Translation and the Politics of Erasure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6344692 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neve Gordon (0000-0002-9502-3998, Ben-Gurion University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 811-828 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9248.00009 |
| OpenAlex | W2003935030 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 19 |
This paper examines the translation of classic political philosophy into Hebrew, arguing that a variety of ideological positions can be disclosed simply by examining the erasure process employed during translation. Exploring the connection between translation and nation-building, I claim that segments from John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, John Locke's Two Treaties of Government and Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan were excised in the service of a Zionist identity politics. Insofar as Zionism is a discursive formation, its production and maintenance involves the expulsion of components that may hinder the fabrication of a unified identity. Counter-narratives of the nation that disrupt its totalizing boundaries may disturb, in Homi Bhabha's words, ‘those ideological maneuvers through which “imagined communities” are given essentialist identities’. By way of conclusion, I argue that the altered texts are in effect a sign that one ideology overpowered another and led, as it were, to the corruption of the spirit underlying the original project of translating classics into Hebrew, a project that was initiated by Leon Roth for different ideological reasons
Constitution · Deconstruction (building · Epistemology · Essentialism · Hebrew · Ideology · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Zionism · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2022 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |