Decentering translation studies : India and beyond / edited by Judy Wakabayashi, Rita Kothari.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wakabayashi, Judy.

Kothari, Rita, 1969-

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; 86.

Benjamins translation library ; 86

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--India--History.

Translating and interpreting.

Indic literature--Translations--History and criticism.

Indic literature.

India--Languages--Translating.

India.

Physical Description:

xi, 219 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book foregrounds practices and discourses of 'translation' in several non-Western traditions. Translation Studies currently reflects the historiography and concerns of Anglo-American and European scholars, overlooking the full richness of translational activities and diverse discourses. The essays in this book, which generally have a historical slant, help push back the geographical and conceptual boundaries of the discipline. They illustrate how distinctive historical, social and philosophical contexts have shaped the ways in which translational acts are defined, performed, viewed, encouraged or suppressed in different linguistic communities. The volume has a particular focus on the multiple contexts of translation in India, but also encompasses translation in Korea, Japan and South Africa, as well as representations of Sufism in different contexts.

Contents:

Decentering Translation Studies

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Untold Stories

Unsettling the foundations

Micro-archives

'Translation'

Translation between non-European languages

Power, (sub)nation and representation

Theorising translation vs living in translation

References

Caste in and Recasting language

Tamil and Sanskrit: A fraught relationship

Tolkappiyam and translation

Hybridisation and purification

The impact of Europeans on Tamil

The politics of Tamil nationalism

Conclusion

Translation as resistance

Defining and redefining literary culture in Kerala

Assimilating the alien in Krishnagatha

The assimilation of two worlds in Ezuthachan's Ramayana

Translation as a mode of negotiating conflict in Nambiar's works

Tellings and renderings in medieval Karnataka

The episode of Kirata Shiva and Arjuna in the written tradition

Tellings and renderings as cultural transactions in medieval Karnataka

Monopolistic aspect of tellings and renderings

Translating tragedy into Kannada

The equation between civilisation and the emergence of genres in England

Orientalists on Sanskrit drama and the absence of tragedy

Negotiation of the perceived 'lacuna' by nationalist intellectuals

Reinterpreting traditional characters

B. M. Srikantia as tragedy writer/editor

Srikantia as tragedy transformer

Srikantia as tragedy translator

The construction of traditions

The afterlives of panditry

Ideologies of colonial interpretation

The limits of life across borders

Classifying the afterlife

Beyond textual acts of translation

Introduction.

Muhammad Ibn Abdul-Wahab and his times

The privatisation of Islam in Kitab At-Tawhid

Creation and articulation of the object in Kitab At-Tawhid

The translation and its historical baggage

Reading Gandhi in two tongues

Translation as cultural transformation

Translation as a philosophical problem

Limits of translation

Being-in-translation

Sufism: Origins, tenets and movement

Sindh: A region of Muslim yogis and Hindu Sufis

Being-in-translation in the poetry of Latif and Sarmast

(Mis)Representation of Sufism through translation

Translation of Sufi works from Arabic

Translation of Sufi works from Persian

Translation strategies

Treatment of Sufi themes and terms in translation

Love

Patience

Translating Indian poetry in the Colonial Period in Korea

Reception of Tagore in Korea during the Colonial Period

Translations of Indian poetry

Background to the Translations of Tagore and Naidu

Debates over Translation

O Ch'on-Sok

No A

T'ae Bong

Kim Ok

Other translators

Translations of Tagore and the creation of new literary forms during the 1920s and 1930s

Pang Chong-Hwan

Yun Sok-Chung

Yang Ju-Dong

Translations of Naidu and new feminine images

Primary source

Secondary sources

A. K. Ramanujan

The mixed messages of the library

The values of difference

The aesthetics of difference

The poet-translator

An etymological exploration of 'translation' in Japan

Rationale for an etymological disquisition

Terminological (dis)continuities

Indigenous terms

Kambun kundoku: Translation as (re-)reading

Hon'yaku

Chokuyaku.

Free translation

Hon'yaku-chō

Layers of metalanguage

Translating against the grain

Untranslating and retranslating

Background to the trial

Imperial discourse

Colonial discourse

The trial and Zulu customary law

Bishop Colenso's 'translation' of the trial

Against-the-grain negotiation between oral and written traditions

Index

The series Benjamins Translation Library.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612444951

9781282444959

1282444956

9789027288929

9027288925

OCLC:

593240216