Orient Blackswan

Imprint	Orient BlackSwan
Year of Publishing	2013
Number of pages	172
ISBN	9788125051282
Format	Hardback
Language	English
Dimensions	140 x 216 mm

Imprint

Orient BlackSwan

Year of Publishing

2013

Number of pages

172

ISBN

9788125051282

Format

Hardback

Language

English

Dimensions

140 x 216 mm

the Book
the Author(s)
Table of Contents

Translation and Postcolonialities is a collection of essays that pertain to the many intricate and complex ways in which translation is seen to mirror postcolonialities, and brings to the foreground the nature and function of translation in the multilingual and multicultural context of India.

These essays are a selection from the IACLALS conference held in Dharwad, Karnataka, in 2009. They use a variety of linguistic and cultural contexts – Kannada, Kashmiri, English and Hindi – to interrogate translation practices for their complicity with the so-called colonial politics as well as to bring out the linguistic, cultural and political transactions and collaborations involved in colonial and postcolonial translations. Analysing ''texts'' as disparate as ancient Kannada scriptures and the Indian variant of Spider-Man comics, the volume presents a rich and layered debate on the role and place of translation in the postcolonial context.

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Vijaya Guttal teaches at Karnatak University, Dharwad.
Suchitra Mathur teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

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Foreword

Introduction: Translation and Postcolonial Aspirations ix
Vijaya Guttal and Suchitra Mathur

1. Dimensions of Translation: A Keynote Address
Shashi Deshpande

2. A Fine Balancing Act: Translation in (Post)Colonial Settings
Paul St-Pierre

3. The Superhero Goes Native: ‘Translating’ Spider-Man for an Indian Audience
Suchitra Mathur

4. Translational Relationships: Transactions between English and Kannada in the Colonial Context
Rajendra Chenni

5. Aurel Stein and Kashmir: Translation as Enabling
Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri

6. Multifaceted and Multilayered Orientalism: Translation of Lingayath Puranas by Administrators
and Missionaries
Vijayakumar M. Boratti

7. Chakori: The Indigenous in the Postcolonial World
Vijaya Guttal and Vikram Visaji

8. Paratexts in Translations: Considering English Literary Translations from Kannada
Nikhila H.

9. Translating the Translated: Koi Accha-Sa Ladka as the Hindi Avatar of A Suitable Boy
Vedita Cowaloosur

Contributors

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Translation and Postcolonialities

Transactions Across Languages and Cultures

Vijaya Guttal and Suchitra Mathur (Eds.)

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