“Translation is the performative nature of cultural communication. It is language in actu (enunciation, positionality) rather than language in situ (énoncé, or propositionality). And the sign of translation continually tells, or ‘tolls’ the different times and spaces between cultural authority and its performative practices.” (Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture)

Stirring stuff, eh? A ringing clarion call to scholars of translation everywhere. So much so that no less than three different contributors to Translation Translation, (ed. Susan Petrilli) quoted at least one of those two sentences.