Of home and exile
Framing nation and its fragments in translation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21243076 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hemang Ashwinkumar (0009-0000-4382-1106, Central University of Gujarat, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2330-6351 • E-ISSN: 2330-6343 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23306343.2025.2465931 |
| OpenAlex | W4407668308 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
The paper examines the politics of translating Arun Kolatkar’s Kala Ghoda Poems (2004) into Gujarati and its implications for postcolonial agentive action. It explores the multiple ways in which the subversive potential of postcolonial translation can be deployed more productively by translating in local languages than by translating back to the Empire. The subversion relates to the inversion of relationships between languages caught in translation, exploration of the theme of migration without colonialism as a point of reference, and critical engagement with the idea of nation-building. The urban metropolis of Mumbai becomes an alibi for the translator to raise questions about the migration, marginalization, and ruthless mauling of the fragments of the nation in his hometown Ahmedabad. Strategies of translation like foregrounding of multilinguality, multiple versions of the same poem, and so on rendered a modernist poet like Arun Kolatkar almost unrecognizable in Gujarati, but they served a major postcolonial function i.e. to challenge absolutism and essentialism permeating socio-literary and political cultures
Archaeology · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Comparative and World Literature · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Translation Studies and Practices
Constructing a Sociology of Translation
La Tierra Es Plana
Modernity at large
Cosmopolitanism
The Ground beneath Her Feet
Rethinking Translation
Translation and the Postcolonial Experience
Borderlands/La Frontera
A Decolonial Feminism
Writing Outside the Nation
The Nation and Its Fragments
Cast(e) in ‘Other’ Mold
The manifesto
Evicted. Poverty and profit in the American city
Mega Transformation of Mumbai
Postcolonialism
Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing
An invitation to reflexive sociology
Death and Digestion
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |