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This volume re-evaluates the paradigm of translation within the multilingual and cultural context of the Indian subcontinent. Translation is seen by the contributors as a mode of asking questions—difficult, subtle and fundamental questions—about cultural identity. Additionally, they view translations not only as a bridge between languages but between divergent theoretical positions. Bringing together original contributions from leading practitioners and ...
A revealing look into the long afterlife of colonial conquest, Lying on the Postcolonial Couch offers an original, overarching concept that informs—and helps to explain—the workings of postcoloniality. This concept, ‘indifference’, is a play on the key critical term ‘difference’. Rukmini Bhaya Nair traces a paper trail beginning in 1757 with the Battle of Plassey, winding through the contentious mutiny of 1857, and ending with Salman Rushdie’s ...
Yellow Hibiscus by award-winning poet Rukmini Bhaya Nair brings together some of her best published poetry along with several new verses written over the past few years. If freedom, pain, death and memory are the universal themes that run through 'Immortals'--the first section of the book--animals and insects, places, and passion for language are at the core of the others. The subtle, ironical insights into the fallibility of human nature that Nair offers us in ...