Translating Power Stories, Essays, Criticism
- New Delhi Katha 2016
- 257p
includes index and biblioraphy
stories The Strench ........3 Swadeshyatra ..........9 Chandri ........29 The whale .........45 The story of the firebird ,red rabbit and the endangered tribes .........65 The return .......77 Jungle ..........89 The verdict .......101 Critical commentaries Translating repression: reading "The strench" By Sandhya Devesan Nambiar ........118 From repression to hegermony : reading "Swadeshyatra by AFM Maswood Akhter ........125 Hegemony, or the Mind- games of capillary power: Reading "Chandri" by gunjeet aurora ....133 Of potental resistance : Reading "the whale " by Bijay Mehta ...........139 The ironies of potential resistance : Reading ...........145 "The story of the firebird ........"by ravneet grover The (im)possibility of resistance : Reading "the return" ........152 The duplicities of transgression : reading jungle ........159 Unreliability and subversion as resistance :Reading " the verdict " by sunil kumar ..........168 power overview Translation and power : Contingencies and revolutiona ........176 Translation and power : imagining the other ............186 Translatiing power : Empire, language and the postmodern condition ....197 power and the case of horizontal translation ......208 Translation and power : Areader`s perspective ........221 Select annotated bibliography - Translating power : 229 Glossary .......236 Biofraphical notes ..........250 Index .........254