Towards intercultural translation

Abstract

As is well known, translation exists because we are different: linguistic and
cultural differences. Therefore, translation has always served to open up to the difference of
other worlds, start intercultural dialogues and build bridges of communication. However, in
the framework of globalization and the dominant Eurocentric order, translation finds it
increasingly difficult to fulfill its role of fostering intercultural dialogue, which leads to the
invisibility and exclusion of many other cultures, languages and epistemologies, forgetting
that interculturality, in short, consists of getting to know each other. Starting from this
perception of interculturality, in this communication we try to open the discussion on
intercultural translation from a decolonial epistemological position, offering a critical
approach to Eurocentrism as a dominant colonial ideology that manipulates and disfigures the
very meaning of interculturality by a cultural hegemony.