The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation

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concept of foreignness as an essential value; indeed, the foreign text is
privileged in a foreignizing translation only insofar as it enables a
disruption of target-language cultural codes, so that its value is always
strategic, depending on the cultural formation into which it is
translated. The point is rather to elaborate the theoretical, critical, and
textual means by which translation can be studied and practiced as a
locus of difference, instead of the homogeneity that widely
characterizes it today.