Other tongues : rethinking the language debates in India / edited by Nalini Iyer and Bonnie Zare.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Iyer, Nalini.

Zare, Bonnie.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; 99.

Cross/cultures ; 99

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--India.

English language.

Indic literature.

Indic literature (English)--History and criticism.

Indic literature (English).

Indic literature--History and criticism.

Indic literature--Translations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India explores the implications of the energetic and, at times, acrimonious public debate among Indian authors and academics over the hegemonic role of Indian writing in English. From the 1960's the debate in India has centered on the role of the English language in perpetuating and maintaining the cultural and ideological aspects of imperialism. The debate received renewed attention following controversial claims by Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul on the inferior status of contemporary Indian-language literatures. This volume : • offers nuanced analysis of the language, audience and canon debate; • provides a multivocal debate in which academics, writers and publishers are brought together in a multi-genre format (academic essay, interview, personal essay); • explores how translation mediates this debate and the complex choices that translation must entail. Other Tongues is the first collective study by to bring together voices from differing national, linguistic and professional contexts in an examination of the nuances of this debate over language. By creating dialogue between different stakeholders – seven scholars, three writers, and three publishers from India – the volume brings to the forefront underrepresented aspects of Indian literary culture.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Embattled Canons: The Place of Diasporic Writing in Indian English Literature / Nalini Iyer

Not Too Spicy: Exotic Mistresses of Cultural Translation in the Fiction of Chitra Divakaruni and Jhumpa Lahiri / Lavina Dhingra Shankar

Code-Switching, Shape-Shifting, Asking Different Questions: South Asian Women’s Language In and Across Nations / Josna Rege

One Bhasha Writer’s Side of the Coin / Mahesh Elkunchwar

The Last Fifty Years: A Retrospective on the Calcutta Writers Workshop / Pradip Sen

A South Asian American Writer’s Perspective: An Interview with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni / Nina Swamidoss Mcconigley

India: The World of Publishing and Writing in 2007 / Urvashi Butalia

Reaching New Audiences: A Conversation with Katha Press / Geeta Dharmarajan , Rizio Yohannan Raj , K. Dharmarajan and Bonnie Zare

Publishing Translations: An Interview with MINI KRISHNAN, Oxford University Press / Mini Krishnan and Nalini Iyer

Translation and Globalization: Tamil Dalit Literature and Bama’s Karukku / Anushiya Sivanarayanan

Translation and the Vernacular: The Tamil Krishna Devotional “Alaippayuthey” / S. Shankar

Interview: S. SHANKAR Speaking with NALINI IYER

Real-Life Transfers: Reading Literature Through Translation / Christi A. Merrill

Meeting Online: Translation and Transmission on the Web / Arnab Chakladar

Notes on the Contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0675-9

1-4416-0357-3

OCLC:

714567279