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

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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
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/40733
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > Languages and Cultures > French
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
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Projects:	Languages at War: policies and practices of language contracts in conflict Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/F009968/1 - £243,539) Local Lead (PI): Hilary Footitt Project Lead: Hilary Ann Footitt 1 May 2008 - 31 October 2011	Click Add to select your project (received at Reading) from an autocomplete list.

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