Contemporary translation theories traces the growth of translation theory from its traditional roots through the recent proliferation of theories, fuelled by research in feminism, postsructural, and postcolonial investigations
The introduction to translation, history and culture that although empirical historical research can document changes in modes of translation, to explain such changes a translation studies scholar must go into "the vagaries and vicissitudes of the exercise of power in asociety, and what the exercise of power means in terms of the production of culture, of which the production of translations is…