Author: Christi A. Merrill
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823229556
Size: 34.26 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Riddles Of Belonging books, Can the subaltern joke? Christi A. Merrill answers by invoking riddling, oral-based fictions from Hindi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, and Urdu that dare to laugh at the details of contentious traditions often kept hidden--whether spouse abuse, ethnic violence, or the uncertain legacies of a divinely wrought sex change. Merrill argues that the playful lessons of these narratives offer insight into the networks of transnational relation connecting us across a sea of differences. A translator herself, Merrill uses these examples, especially from the work of Rajasthani writer Vijay Dan Detha, to investigate the expectation that translated work should allow the non-English-speaking subaltern to speak directly to the English-speaking reader. She plays with the trope of speaking to argue against treating a translated text as property and thus as a singular material object to be "carried across" (as trans-latus implies.) She refigures it instead as a performative "telling in turn" (from the Hindi word anuvad) to explain how a text might be multiply possessed.
