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Translation Reconsidered: Culture, Genre and the “Colonial Encounter” in Nineteenth Century Bengal
Author: Chandrani Chatterjee
Date Of Publication: Jan 2010
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-1712-7
Isbn: 1-4438-1712-0
The present work is an interdisciplinary study cutting across the disciplines of translation studies, genre studies, literary history and cultural history. It primarily deals with a phase of transition in the socio-cultural history of Bengal but has implications for the study of Indian literature as a whole. It takes the view that “translation” does not merely relocate the text in the target language, but negotiates several sets of relationships between the two cultures involved, altering the nature of relations between them. The study considers the mediating and shaping agency of “genre” in this context. Not only are works translated but genres are translated too, and assume striking and unprecedented shapes in the linguistic culture of the target audience.
Chandrani Chatterjee is a Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Pune, India. She received her doctoral degree in 2008 from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India. The present book is largely based on her doctoral thesis. Some sections of this work have been presented in conferences in the USA, Germany and India and have also appeared as research papers in journals. Her research interests include such diverse areas as translation studies, genre studies, Renaissance and Shakespeare studies and gender studies.
“The work draws upon long and arduous archival study and deserves in my opinion to be widely read. ... It contains important new material and that it opens up lines for future study. I have no doubt that many new researchers in the field will profit from a book such as this: it will also raise new scholarly questions and debates.”
—Amlan Das Gupta, Professor and Head, Department of English, Jadavpur University “The present book is an insightful treatise on cultural translation at a crucial moment in the evolution of modern India, when Indian modernity was being conceptualized, defined and articulated in literary texts as well as political processes. Through close and nuanced readings of seminal texts from one of the dominant literary traditions of India, [Dr. Chatterjee] maps a territory that is a locus of several narratives such as tradition, region, class, caste, nation, genre, culture, translation, print and history.” —E. V. Ramakrishnan, Professor and Head, Department of English, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University
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