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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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“Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?”

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

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