Flesh and Fish Blood - Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular

Zusatztext "[A] well-researched and illuminating argument. . . . The case for the vernacular is argued . . . comprehensively and convincingly." Informationen zum Autor Subramanian Shankar is Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is the author of Textual Traffic: Colonialism! Modernity! and the Economy of the Text" and co-editor of Crossing into America: The New Literature of Immigration . Zusammenfassung Exploring the rich potential of vernacular literary expressions, this title pushes beyond the postcolonial Anglophone canon and works with Indian literature and film in English, Tamil, and Hindi to present an extended exploration of representations of caste, including a critical consideration of Tamil Dalit (so-called untouchable) literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Preface 1. Midnight's Orphans! or the Postcolonial and the Vernacular 2. Lovers and Renouncers! or Caste and the Vernacular 3. Pariahs! or the Human and the Vernacular 4. The "Problem" of Translation Conclusion: Postcolonialism and Comparatism Notes Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: S. Shankar, Subramanian Shankar
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.07.2012
• EAN: 9780520272521
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27252-1
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Flashpoints (University of Cal; Flashpoints
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, India, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Modern Indic languages