Language, Culture and Power: English-Tamil in Modern India, 1900 to Present Day

ISBN-13: 9781138289222 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 238 str.

Opis

This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries, evaluating vital roles of translation in redefining culture and ethnic identity. The essays in this volume explore the symbiotic relation between English and Tamil during the late colonial and postcolonial as also the modernist and the postmodernist periods.

Spis treści

Contributors.  Foreword.  Preface.  Acknowledgements.  Introduction 1. Toward a Third language: Translating Classical Tamil Poetry 2. The Rhetoric of Spontaneity: Translation of Bhakti Literature 3. The Role of Little Magazines: Translating Literary Texts and Texts on Literary Criticism from English to Tamil 1900–2000 4. Translating Theory and Conceptualising Subjectivity in the 1990s in Tamil Nadu 5. Cultural Empowerment and Translation: A Study of Post-1970 Ventures from Tamil to English 6. Mapping the Nuances of Language 7.  Conclusion.  Afterword.  Bibliography