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A Question of Political Correctness: Translating Friendship across Time and Space
- Journal of the History of Ideas
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 82, Number 3, July 2021
- pp. 503-520
- 10.1353/jhi.2021.0025
- Article
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Abstract:
The article explores translation processes behind diplomatic negotiations between Japan and the Spanish overseas empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. It applies a multi-layered approach that integrates the translations of original diplomatic documents with their re-translation as historiographical source compilations in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Analyzing the different connotations and nuances of friendship as a diplomatic concept, it highlights the impact of translation, both linguistic and cultural, as well as the strategies behind terminological choices, on intercultural encounters.