The Cultural Turn in Translation Studies: Bassnett and Lefevere’s Legacy
In the early 1990s, Translation Studies experienced a seismic shift that would fundamentally alter the discipline forever. Pioneered by scholars Susan Bassnett and André Lefevere, this movement—now universally known as the “Cultural Turn”—argued that translation is not merely a linguistic exercise occurring in a vacuum, but a deeply ideological act shaped by culture, power, and history. Moving Beyond… Read More »
