Module 7: Role of the Translator
  Lecture 27:Translation as Resistance
 

 

Assignments

  1. Which are the ways in which translation can be thought of as a resistance strategy?
  2. Can you think of an example where a translated work led to a major literary change?

References

Cronin, Michael. “History, Translation, Postcolonialism”. Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era. Eds. Sherry Simon and Paul St-Pierre. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2002: 33-52
Navayana, <http://navayana.org/>

Tharu, Susie and K. Lalita. Women Writing in India. Vol. II: The 20th century. New York: Feminist Press, 1993

Venuti, Lawrence. The Translator’s Invisibility: A History of Translation. London: Routledge, 1995. Rpt. 1999.