Tejaswini Niranjana received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. Introduction: History in Translation2. Representing Texts and Cultures:Translation Studies and Ethnography3· Allegory and the Critique of Historicism:Reading Paul de Man4· Politics and Poetics: De Man, Benjamin, andthe Task of the Translator5· Deconstructing Translation and History:Derrida on Benjamin6. Translation as Disruption: Post-Structuralismand the Post-Colonial ContextBibliographyIndex

Tejaswini Niranjana received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. Introduction: History in Translation2. Representing Texts and Cultures:Translation Studies and Ethnography3· Allegory and the Critique of Historicism:Reading Paul de Man4· Politics and Poetics: De Man, Benjamin, andthe Task of the Translator5· Deconstructing Translation and History:Derrida on Benjamin6. Translation as Disruption: Post-Structuralismand the Post-Colonial ContextBibliographyIndex

Tejaswini Niranjana received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles and teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. Introduction: History in Translation2. Representing Texts and Cultures:Translation Studies and Ethnography3· Allegory and the Critique of Historicism:Reading Paul de Man4· Politics and Poetics: De Man, Benjamin, andthe Task of the Translator5· Deconstructing Translation and History:Derrida on Benjamin6. Translation as Disruption: Post-Structuralismand the Post-Colonial ContextBibliographyIndex