Imperial Babel: Translation, Exoticism, and the Long Nineteenth Century, by Padma Rangarajan, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder, brings the field of translation studies to bear on the literature of the British Empire in India during the 19th century, from Sir William Jones and Edmund Burke to Max Müller and Rudyard Kipling. Rangarajan's work answers a pronounced need in a number of intersecting fields---Literary Studies, Postcolonial Theory, South Asian Studies, Translation Studies---to understand the complex cross-cultural negotiations taking place between Britain and the Indian colony in the 19th century.
At the heart of every colonial encounter lies an act of translation. Rangarajan gives dynamic considerations of the contexts that shape translations and that, in turn, reveal translation's truer function as a locus of power. She explores translation's complex role in shaping literary and political relationships between India and Britain & argues that translation changed both colonizer and colonized and undermined colonial hegemony as much as it abetted it. Imperial Babel explores the diverse political and cultural consequences of a variety of texts, from eighteenth-century oriental tales to mystic poetry of the fin de siecle and from translation proper to its ethnological, mythographic, and religious variants.
Searching for translation's trace enables a broader, more complex understanding of intellectual exchange in imperial culture as well as a more nuanced awareness of the dialectical relationship between colonial policy and nineteenth-century literature.
Fordham University Press
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