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“Translation is defying a curse laid by God”: R.F. Kuang’s Babel and the Colonialist Origins of Linguistics

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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution

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“Translation is defying a curse laid by God”: R.F. Kuang’s Babel and the Colonialist Origins of Linguistics

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Falling for Language, and Translation as Destruction: R.F. Kuang’s Babel

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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

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