Thick Translation and Cultural Resistance: Annotating Culture-Specific Items in the English-to-Chinese Translation of the Afrosurreal Manifesto

Keyword

Thick Translation; Afrosurrealism; Culture-Specific Items (CSIs); Annotation

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