Naoki Sakai: Translation and the Tropics of Cultural Difference
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Date: 2014-05-24

Naoki Sakai 
Translation and the Tropics of Cultural Difference

Plenary at the EST Congress in Germersheim, September 1, 2013
Naoki Sakai is professor in the departments of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Cornell University. His research fields are in comparative literature, intellectual history, translation studies, the studies of racism and nationalism, the histories of semiotic and literary multitude. He inaugurated the project TRACES: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation, which is simultaneously published in four languages - Korean, Chinese, English, and Japanese (Spanish was added this year and it is expected that the German edition of TRACES will be published in 2013) and served as its founding senior editor (from 1996 to 2004). His most relevant publications include: Translation and Subjectivity (1997), Hope and Constitution (2008), Deconstructing Nationality (co-edited with Brett de Bary and Toshio Iyotan, 2005), TRACES 1: The Spectre of the West (co-edited with Yukiko Hanawa), TRACES 4: Translation, Biopolitics and Colonial Difference (co-edited with Jon Solomon).