Decentering Translation Studies: India and beyond
Edited by Judy Wakabayashi and Rita Kothari
[Benjamins Translation Library, 86] 2009. xi, 219 pp.
Rita Kothari
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rita Kothari plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Translation Studies
2019 Chapter 6. More or less “translation”: Landscapes of language and communication in India A World Atlas of Translation, Gambier, Yves and Ubaldo Stecconi (eds.), pp. 125–148 | Chapter
This essay aims to theorise the present moment of translation in India without losing sight of its historical and contemporary understandings. It traces in the pre-modern moment, a range of linguistic negotiations to destabilise a theory of an absence of translation and dwells on perceptions of… read more
2009 Being-in-translation: Sufism in Sindh Decentering Translation Studies: India and beyond, Wakabayashi, Judy and Rita Kothari (eds.), pp. 119–132 | Article
This paper is an attempt to understand how the convergence of different languages and religious traditions in the Sufi practice prevalent in Sindh reflects moments of hybridity, migrancy and translation. Sufism emerged in Sindh like a migrant text, constantly crossing borders, being carried over,… read more
2009 Introduction Decentering Translation Studies: India and beyond, Wakabayashi, Judy and Rita Kothari (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2006 English translation in Gujarat: Emerging consensus Sociocultural Aspects of Translating and Interpreting, Pym, Anthony, Miriam Shlesinger † and Zuzana Jettmarová (eds.), pp. 93–99 | Article
Although commonly thought to unify cultures, translation can also be used in order to create separate cultural identities. This functional complexity can be seen in the case of translation into English in the state of Gujarat, India. Although translations into English were previously seen as an… read more