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Towards a Monolingual World: Indian English Fiction and Translations in India

Towards a Monolingual World: Indian English Fiction and Translations in India

Sanju Thomas
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781522528326|ISBN10: 1522528326|EISBN13: 9781522528333
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2832-6.ch002
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Thomas, Sanju. "Towards a Monolingual World: Indian English Fiction and Translations in India." Redefining Translation and Interpretation in Cultural Evolution, edited by Olaf Immanuel Seel, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 20-41. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2832-6.ch002

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Thomas, S. (2018). Towards a Monolingual World: Indian English Fiction and Translations in India. In O. Seel (Ed.), Redefining Translation and Interpretation in Cultural Evolution (pp. 20-41). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2832-6.ch002

Chicago

Thomas, Sanju. "Towards a Monolingual World: Indian English Fiction and Translations in India." In Redefining Translation and Interpretation in Cultural Evolution, edited by Olaf Immanuel Seel, 20-41. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2832-6.ch002

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Abstract

The chapter looks into the existing language equation in India through a literary lens. Even though the number of translations from other Indian languages to English has increased, in the national and international market Indian English fiction has come to represent Indian fiction. This complexity is due to the growing status of English in globalized India, which is also reflected in the popularity of Indian English fiction. However, a historical analysis would reveal that the rise of Indian English fiction is a postcolonial phenomenon and this has been at the expense of translations. The chapter substantiates this cultural evolution further through a study of the Malayalam translation of the Indian English novel The God of Small Things and the English translation of the Malayalam novel Chemmeen. The translation strategies and iconography of the book covers are analyzed to discuss the existing equation between English and other Indian languages.

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