Translation and Postcolonialities: Transactions Across Languages and Cultures

This compendium of nine papers, presented at the IACLALS conference held at Karnataka University, Dharwad, presents a rich and layered debate on the role and place of translation in the postcolonial context. Using a variety of linguistic and cultural contexts—Kannad, Kashmiri, English and Hindi, it interrogates translation practices for their complicity with the so-called colonial politics as well as to bring out the linguistic, cultural, and political transactions and collaborations involved in colonial and post-colonial transactions. It analyses ‘texts’ as disparate as ancient Kannad scriptures and the Indian variant of Spider-man comics.