Big issues around a small-scale phenomenon: vernacular pulp fiction in English translation for Indian readers  

Oleh:

Gupta, Suman

Jenis: Article from Article
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature vol. 48 no. 1 (Mar. 2013), page 159-175.
Topik: English; Hindi; India; pulp fiction; translation; vernacular
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This paper explores the implications of the recent appearance of some Indian vernacular pulp fiction texts in English translation for Indian readers. As background, the first of three main sections outlines the current scope of Indian Translation Studies, and also briefly examines recent thinking about the position of English in India. The second section examines the habitual Indian English readers’ perspective of such pulp fiction in translation, and the third that of Hindi commentators insofar as relevant here. These two latter sections do not offer a linear argument, or undertake a close reading of specific texts. Rather, they draw a picture of vernacular and English popular print culture in India, wherein various slippages and cross-connections are apparent.

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