Translating Kerala is an interdisciplinary study that is situated at the interstices of translation studies and cultural studies. It looks at translation as a social and cultural act that transcribes, articulates and interprets structures of power unfolding within asymmetrical fields of cultural politics. The book tries to go beyond traditional approaches that consider translation as a literary and linguistic endeavour, attempting to look at it as a process that transcribes and articulates the region of Kerala, while teasing out the paradoxes, ambiguities and politics that mediate such translational acts. The chapters in this book delve into seminal issues, ranging from the politics that constitutes various linguistic variables of Malayalam to the interpretative paradigms that bring out experiences of the gendered and subaltern subject in Kerala. In the process, it focuses on texts as varied as the Malayalam translation of Les Miserables, the autobiographies of C. K. Janu and Nalini Jameela, and Ramu Kariats cinematic adaptation of Chemmeen. From detailed discussions on canonical literary texts to noncanonical/popular cultural texts.

Binding: Paperback;200 pages; Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd; Classification: FYT; Weight: 350 g; Dimensions: 217 x 149 x 12

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