The paper analyses the study of translation as a cultural phenomenon
in the wider context of cultural studies. The first part investigates the
position of translation as a cultural practice, with reference to the main
critical voices that have put translation in relation with other cultural
issues, such as gender, postcolonialism, diaspora. The second part analyses the
specific case of Brian Friels play Translations, as an example of
translation
as a cultural practice, because of the political, linguistic and social
implications that translation has in this writing
