Beyond English : translating modernism in the global south

My title echoes Agha Shahid Ali’s sentiment of needing to move beyond the linguistic nationalism of “English” toward a more varied understanding of Anglophone writing within multiple contexts in the world. In three theoretical case studies from four linguistic and literary traditions (English, Bengali, Spanish, and Hindi-Urdu), I explore the dimensions and definitions of comparative Anglophone and world literature, comparative poetics, and a comparative study of novels – in the global postcolonial world. I focus on moments of translatability and untranslatability to question traditional models for studies in English and comparative literature that do not account for translation. Each of my chapters shows how texts in the “original” or “translation” do not always circulate from a homogenized metropolitan center to a marginalized periphery, and unlike in the elite North American and Parisian world where untranslatability often inspires terror and loss of language, translations can act as connecting forces that create organic dialogue in the global south on modernism and postcolonial discourses that go beyond Europe and America

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Comparative Literature

Grantor

The University of Texas at Austin

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Tiwari, Bhavya

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Richmond-Garza, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Merle),1964-

• Translation
• Comparative literature
• World literature
• Global south
• Modernism

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/2152/28043

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/28043