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Other Tongues

Iyer, Nalini / Zare, Bonnie (Hrsg.):
Other Tongues : rethinking the language debates in India / ed. by Nalini Iyer and Bonnie Zare. - Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009. - 208 S. - (Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English ; 99)
ISBN 978-90-420-2519-6
EUR 49,00 / US$ 66,00

Beschreibung
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 1960s 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. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgements. vii
Bonnie Zare and Nalini Iyer: Introduction: Problematizing Indian Literary Canons. ix
I. CANONIZING AUTHORS, AUTHORIZING CANONS
1. Nalini Iyer: Embattled Canons: The Place of Diasporic Writing in Indian English Literatures. 3
2. Lavina Dhingra Shankar: Not Too Spicy: Exotic Mistresses of Cultural Translation in the Fiction of Chitra Divakaruni and Jhumpa Lahiri. 23
3. Josna Rege: Code-Switching, Shape-Shifting, Asking Different Questions: South Asian Women's Language In and Across Nations. 53
4. Mahesh Elkunchwar: One Bhasha Writer's Side of the Coin. 77
5. Pradip Sen: The Last Fifty Years: A Retrospective on the Calcutta Writers Workshop. 89
6. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni with Nina Swamidoss McConigley: A South Asian American Writer's Perspective: An Interview with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. 97
II. PERSPECTIVES FROM THE WORLD OF PUBLISHING
7. Urvashi Butalia: India: The World of Publishing and Writing in 2007. 107
8. Geeta Dharmarajan, Rizio Yohannan Raj and K. Dharmarajan speaking with Bonnie Zare: Reaching New Audiences: A Conversation with Katha Press. 115
9. Mini Krishnan with Nalini Iyer: Publishing Translations: An Interview with Mini Krishnan, Oxford University Press. 123
III. TRANSLATION AND TRANSCREATION
10. Anushiya Sivanarayanan: Translation and Globalization: Tamil Dalit Literature and Bama's Karukku. 135
11. S. Shankar: Translation and the Vernacular: The Tamil Krishna Devotional “Alaippayuthey”. 155
12. S. Shankar Speaking with Nalini Iyer: Interview. 163
13. Christi A. Merrill: Real-Life Transfers: Reading Literature Through Translation. 169
14. Arnab Chakladar: Meeting Online: Publishing/Discussing Translation on the Web. 191
Notes on the Contributors. 205

Herausgeber
NALINI IYER is Associate Professor of English at Seattle University. Profile page.
BONNIE ZARE is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Wyoming. Profile page.

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