In the present contribution to the History of Translation we consider critically the emergence and integration of Translation Studies as an academic discipline and the role of both Translation History and Translation Historiography. An analysis of what this discipline was before its acceptance into academia and proposals for what its role should be within a humanistic oriented curriculum for future professionals derives from the reception, clearly unsatisfactory, of its status as academic knowledge. Given the specificity of the Latin American situation (in no other region of the world translation has played a greater identitary role), we have added an appendix on the History of Translation in the region. ResumenEn la presente contribución al monográfico sobre historia de la traducción nos planteamos críticamente el surgimiento e integración como especialidad académica de los estudios de la traducción y el papel que en ellos deben desempeñar la historia y la historiografía de la traducción. Un análisis de lo que ha sido esta disciplina con anterioridad a su academización y unas propuestas de lo que debe ser su función en el interior de unos planes de estudios orientados a la formación humanística del futuro profesional son derivados de una percepción a todas luces insatisfactoria de su situación como saber académico. Dada la especificidad de la situación hispanoamericana (en ninguna http://dx

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Multilinguality, creolization and hybridisation are central phenomena of language. Languages bear the traces of creative borrowing, as well as forced changes as a consequence of domination. However, mainstream translation theory generally seems to presuppose a clear division between source language and target language. Why the persistence not to see the ways languages intermesh? In this essay I 1) argue the importance of multilinguality for translation theory, 2) suggest that the theoretical insistence in not seeing the way languages intermesh is grounded in an Occidentalist preoccupation with I/Other relations which require strict dichotomization and 3) disrupt the dichotomy with insurgent texts and voices which countermand the tendency to erase any kind of linguistic mixing. I conclude by proposing a methodology for taking fuller stock of the play of power and the plurality. Received: 08-04-07 / Accepted: 06-08-07 How to reference this article: Price, J. M. (2007). Lenguas híbridas, traducción y desafíos poscoloniales. Íkala. 12(1), pp. 61 – 93.

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