Abstract
This paper examines cultural mediation in three different cases of postcolonial translation: 1) the translation of the Treaty of Waitangi from English into Māori; 2) Patricia Grace’s English-Māori writing ‘Potiki’, which issues challenges to postcolonial and neocolonial practices and philosophies; and 3) the German translation of ‘Potiki’. The specific purpose of the translations was political or commercial and these purposes were achieved. Yet, cultural mediation to successfully bridge the respective cultural interstices was not desired in the translations of the former texts and not completely accomplished in the German text.
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