A Look Into the Cultural Turn, Post-Colonial and Feminist Translation From the Tower of Babel

Jacques Derrida, in his article titled “Des Tours De Babel” (1985), emphasizes that the words in the language are comprised of infinite meanings and contexts; therefore, the concept of equivalence is a defective concept, and that each translation is a rewriting. Based on this idea, the translation, which is valid and appropriate for a given context in a certain period of time, is deemed to undergo deconstruction through constantly changing conditions and perspectives, thus gradually ripping off the target text from the source text under each and every task of translation. In this study, the translational approaches of cultural turn, post-colonial translation and feminist translation, which see the translation activity as a form of cultural and linguistic rewriting, will be discussed, and the question of whether there are any parallelisms between the interpretations these approaches have brought into the concept of translation and Derrida's approach to rewriting will try to be answered