(Trans)Migrating Words:: Refractions on Indian Translation Studies

by Sachin Ketkar

Interweaving the Eastern motifs of metampsychosis and metamorphosis into thinking about translation, Sachin Ketkar, a practicing Indian translator and bilingual poet, relects upon various theoretical, practial and pedagogical aspects of literary translation from an Indian perspective. The book addresses a wide range of issues and challenges faced by a literary translator in India. It looks at the poetics, the politics, and complex cultural and historical contexts of literary translation in India. Lucidly written, meticulous in analysis, bold and provocative in theorization, this book will be of significant use to the researcher of cross-cultural studies and translation. The author also speculates on possibility of thinking about translation as the Yoga in its etymological sense of 'yoking of the opposites'. In this sense it implies 'yoking' together of distinctive cultures and an attempt to go beyond the world of differences.

172 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2010

About the author

Sachin C. Ketkar (b.1972) is a bilingual writer, translator, editor, blogger and researcher based in Baroda, Gujarat. His most recent book is Changlya Kavitevarchi Statutory Warning: Samkaleen Marathi Kavita, Jagatikikaran ani Bhashantar (Sept 2016) a collection of Marathi articles on contemporary Marathi poetry, globalization and translation. His books in English include Skin, Spam and Other Fake Encounters: Selected Marathi Poems in translation, (2011), (Trans) Migrating Words: Refractions on Indian Translation Studies (2010) and A Dirge for the Dead Dog and Other Incantations (2003). His collections of Marathi poetry are Jarasandhachya Blogvarche Kahi Ansh (2010) and Bhintishivaicya Khidkitun Dokavtana, (2004). He has extensively translated present-day Marathi poetry, most of which is collected in the anthology Live Update: An Anthology of Recent Marathi Poetry, 2005 edited by him. He has translated fiction by Jorge Luis Borges, Ted Hughes and Adam Thopre into Marathi. He won ‘Indian Literature Poetry Translation Prize’, given by Indian Literature Journal, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi for translation of modern Gujarati poetry in 2000. Apart from rendering the fifteenth century Gujarati poet Narsinh Mehta for his doctoral research, he has also translated numerous modern Gujarati writers like Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh, Bhupen Khakkar, Jayant Khatri, Rajendra Patel, Nazir Mansuri and Mona Patrawala into English. He works as Professor in English, Faculty of Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara.
Several of his publications are available at Academia.edu . His books are available at Amazon.in and Paperwall.in He blogs at: Cosmic Joke