The Book
The book deals with translation in several non- western traditions. The essays show how social and historical contexts have shaped the way translations are rendered. They focus on multiple contexts of translation mainly in India, but also in Korea, Japan and South Africa.
The Author(s)
Rita Kothari, teaches at the Humanities and Social Sciences department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar. Her writings include Translation India: The Cultural Politics of English, The Burden of Refuge: Partition, Sindh, Gujarat and Memories and Movements: Borders and Communities in Banni, Kutch. She has also co-edited with Rupert Snell Chutnefying English: The Phenomenon of Hinglish.
Judy Wakabayashi, is the co-editor of Asian Translation Traditions and Translation and Translation Studies in the Japanese Context. She is also the author of various articles and chapters on translation and translator of several non-fiction books.
Table of Contents
Preface to the South Asian Edition
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Ganesh Devy
Introduction
Rita Kothari and Judy Wakabayashi
Caste in and recasting language: Tamil in translation
G.J.V. Prasad
Translation as resistance: The role of translation in the making of Malayalam literary tradition
E. V. Ramakrishnan
Tellings and renderings in medieval Karnataka: The episode
of Kirata Shiva and Arjuna
T. S. Satyanath
Translating tragedy into Kannada: Politics of genre
and the nationalist elite
V. B. Tharakeshwar
The afterlives of panditry: Rethinking fidelity in sacred texts
with multiple origins
Christi A. Merrill
Beyond textual acts of translation: Kitab At-Tawhid and the politics
of Muslims identity in British India
Masood Ashraf Raja
Reading Gandhi in two tongues
Tridip Suhrud
Being-in-translation: Sufism in Sindh
Rita Kothari
(Mis)Representation of Sufism through translation
Farzaneh Farahzad
Translating Indian poetry in the colonial period in Korea
Theresa Hyun
A. K. Ramanujan: What happened in the library
Sherry Simon
An etymological exploration of translation in Japan
Judy Wakabayashi
Translating against the grain: Negotiation of meaning in the colonial trial of chief Langalibalele and its aftermath
Stanley G. M. Ridge
List of contributors
Index