Translation as a Touchstone
Raji Narasimhan, "Translation as a Touchstone"
English | ISBN: 8132109546 | 2013 | 196 pages | EPUB | 355 KB
English | ISBN: 8132109546 | 2013 | 196 pages | EPUB | 355 KB
Translation as a Touchstone focuses on translation as a creative process, where Narasimhan proposes that translation is an art of highlighting the complex relationship that arises between two languages, their cultures and sensibilities when they are positioned as a main language and a target language. The implications of this proposition are far-reaching, as Narasimhan argues in this book. The place of English in translation exercises in India is an implicit theme, where translation is an act which consolidates the terrain between two linguo-cultures.
English, as argued, is a touchstone language, and in a multi-cultural country like India, this hold of English adds weight to the case for transliteration. With the examples of Vijay Tendulkar′s plays and Arundhati Roy′s The God of Small Things,
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