Subject: Re: Translation, Indian vernacular and "Classical"
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:39:16 -0400


oh and i forgot to add - the worst part is that our analyses *do* become
"representative" in various powerfields ....whether we intend that they do
or not.

r

At 10:34 AM -0400 8/7/00, radhika_gajjala wrote:
>ditto Shankar - thanks for your detailed input - I saw Roja in Telugu and
>Bombay in Hindi, so I am wondering how much this linguistic
>"translation/travelling" re-constructed various identities - I agree, it is
>not as simple as saying "Roja is about Hindu nationalist identity
>construction" or whatever. And this is probably the case with many other
>"postcolonial" texts- whether media texts or people's narratives - our
>analyses flattens out the complexities and we fail to even acknowledge this
>many times. Should we be looking for different ways of "doing Theory" ?
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>r
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>At 10:54 AM -0500 8/6/00, Thomas Palakeel wrote:
>>Dear Shankar,
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>>Thank you very much for joining the dialogue on regional literatures. Of
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>Radhika Gajjala
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