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Poetry, parables and codes: translating the letters of Indian soldiers

Footitt, H. (2016) Poetry, parables and codes: translating the letters of Indian soldiers. In: Walker, J. and Declercq, C. (eds.) Languages and the First World War: communicating in a transnational war. Palgrave Studies in Languages at War. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137550354

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This chapter examines the role of translation in the work of the Indian Mail Censorship Department in France in the First World War, considering the position of the translator as an intermediary figure, and the implications for the military tasks of censorship and intelligence analysis of operating in this way from a foreign language.

Item Type:Book or Report Section
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > Languages and Cultures > French
ID Code:40733
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

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