Radha Chakravarty
Biographic Data
| ID | 1683643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Radha Chakravarty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Radha |
| FAMILY NAME | Chakravarty |
| SIGNATURE | CHAKRAVARTY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ambedkar University Delhi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Textual encounters
This article focuses on Tagore’s translations of medieval saint-poets, writing in different Indian languages, to examine his attempts at “impossible” boundary crossings, from the medieval to the modern, the local to the transregional, and the sacred to the literary. These translations are considered in terms of multilinguality, vernacularization and the democratization of literature, collaborative translation, and Tagore’s contribution to the ong…
Mutant worlds, migrant words
Drawing upon the insights of Rabindranath Tagore, who coined the term viswasahitya to express his own understanding of comparative literature, this essay resituates translation as the cornerstone for new directions in world literature. While conventional understandings of world literature tend to reconfirm existing power structures and hierarchies, translation opens up the possibility of thinking beyond the national/global binary by interrogating…
Mutant worlds, migrant words
Drawing upon the insights of Rabindranath Tagore, who coined the term viswasahitya to express his own understanding of comparative literature, this essay resituates translation as the cornerstone for new directions in world literature. While conventional understandings of world literature tend to reconfirm existing power structures and hierarchies, translation opens up the possibility of thinking beyond the national/global binary by interrogating…
Textual encounters
This article focuses on Tagore’s translations of medieval saint-poets, writing in different Indian languages, to examine his attempts at “impossible” boundary crossings, from the medieval to the modern, the local to the transregional, and the sacred to the literary. These translations are considered in terms of multilinguality, vernacularization and the democratization of literature, collaborative translation, and Tagore’s contribution to the ong…
Mutant worlds, migrant words
Drawing upon the insights of Rabindranath Tagore, who coined the term viswasahitya to express his own understanding of comparative literature, this essay resituates translation as the cornerstone for new directions in world literature. While conventional understandings of world literature tend to reconfirm existing power structures and hierarchies, translation opens up the possibility of thinking beyond the national/global binary by interrogating…
Epistemology (2 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Translation studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Chinese literature (1 works) · Cornerstone (1 works)