Imperial Babel [electronic resource] : translation, exoticism, and the long nineteenth century / Padma Rangarajan.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780823263646
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
- Intertextuality
- Semiotics and literature
- Imperialism in literature
- English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
- Indic literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
- Translating and interpreting -- Great Britain -- History
- Translating and interpreting -- India -- History
- 418/.020954 23
- PN241.5.I53 R36 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter One Translation and the "Formidable Art" -- Radical Difference -- Translation and the Postcolonial Predicament -- Translation's Slant -- Chapter Two Pseudotranslations: Exoticism and the Oriental Tale -- The Heterotopic Space of Translation -- Rethinking Exoticism -- Vathek's Pleasures -- Southey's Translative Failure -- Translation's Fragments -- Chapter Three Romantic Metanoia: Conversion and Cultural Translation in India -- The Oriental Novel -- Translating Evangelicalism -- Linguistic Intermarriage -- Spiritual Flirtation -- Translative Impasse -- Memorials -- Chapter Four "Paths too long obscure": the Translations of Jones and Müller -- Segmentary Lineage -- Sir William Jones and the Hindoo Hymns -- Max Müller and the Task of the Translator -- Cultural Re-Gifting and Translative Heresy -- Chapter Five Translation's Bastards: Mimicry and Linguistic Hybridity -- Mistranslation and Pollution -- Showing the Lions -- Jumble in the Jungle -- Baboo "Funkiness" -- Epilogue: Slant Speech -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.
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