Translation Impossible:

The Ethics, Politics and Pragmatics of Radical Translation in South Asian Literatures

Authors

  • Carola Erika Lorea
  • Matthew Pritchard

Abstract

Since the growth of translation studies, translators and literary scholars have increasingly come to acknowledge the intense ethical and political, as well as practical, issues involved in preparing, producing and circulating translations of literature.

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Author Biographies

Carola Erika Lorea

Carola Erika Lorea is a scholar interested in oral traditions and popular religions in South Asia. After a doctoral research on the songs of a Bengali Baul guru and their performative contexts (2015, University of Rome), she was awarded research fellowships from IIAS, Gonda Foundation (Leiden) and SAI (Heidelberg) to continue her study of Bengali oral literature and post-Partition displacement. She authored several articles on oral traditions and Baul songs, translated the works of Sukumar Ray, Jibanananda Das, Bhaba Pagla and Nabarun Bhattacharya, and was socially engaged as an interpreter for Bangladeshi refugees in Italy. Her research monograph Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman was recently published (Leiden: Brill, 2016).

Matthew Pritchard

Matthew Pritchard is Lecturer in Musical Aesthetics at the University of Leeds, prior to which he held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. Aside from publishing on the history of German music aesthetics, his interest in Bengali music dates from a year spent studying the songs of Rabindranath Tagore at the university Tagore founded, Visva-Bharati in Santiniketan, West Bengal. A translation of two of Tagore’s essays on music appeared in Sangeet Natak 46 (2012); an edition (with translations) of Tagore’s songs is currently in preparation, as well as a book manuscript tracing the musical history and consequences of the ‘aesthetics of feeling’.

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Published

2021-11-17

How to Cite

Lorea , C. E. ., & Pritchard , M. (2021). Translation Impossible: : The Ethics, Politics and Pragmatics of Radical Translation in South Asian Literatures. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 5(1), 1–6. Retrieved from https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/163

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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2018): Translation Impossible: The Ethics, Politics and Pragmatics of Radical Translation in South Asian Literatures

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