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272 The Translator’s Invisibilityhe, like many other English-language translators, resorted to fluency,assimilating marginal experimental narratives to the transparentdiscourse that distinguished the dominant realism. Blackburn’s careeras a modernist poet—translator shows quite clearly that translationstrategies can be defined as “foreignizing” or “domesticating” only inrelation to specific cultural situations, specific moments in thechanging reception of a foreign literature, or in the changing hierarchyof domestic values.