The author of 'The Politics of Translation' and translator of Mahasweta Devi's 'Stanadayini' is:
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Correct answer: C. Gayatri C. Spivak
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Spivak translated 'Stanadayini' as 'Breast-Giver' (In Other Worlds, 1987) and wrote 'The Politics of Translation' (1992), arguing the translator must surrender to the text's 'rhetoricity'.
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