{"product_id":"9788132109549","title":"Translation as a Touchstone","description":"\u003cp\u003eTranslation as a Touchstone focuses on translation as a creative process, where Narasimhan proposes that translation is an art of highlighting the complex relationship that arises between two languages, their cultures and sensibilities when they are positioned as a main language and a target language. The implications of this proposition are far-reaching, as Narasimhan argues in this book. The place of English in translation exercises in India is an implicit theme, where translation is an act which consolidates the terrain between two linguo-cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnglish, as argued, is a touchstone language, and in a multi-cultural country like India, this hold of English adds weight to the case for transliteration. With the examples of Vijay Tendulkar's plays and Arundhati Roy's \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things,\u003c\/i\u003e Narasimhan argues that transliteration not only can but also should extend to wholesale incorporations of Indian language interludes into English translations. Through a comparative study of original passages and phrases in literary texts along with their translated equivalents, she has followed a multi-pronged strategy and has used, as methodology, the comparative analysis method.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough the target language is more than one in two of the works discussed in the essays—Samskara, by U. R. Ananthamurthy, and \u003ci\u003eChemmeen\u003c\/i\u003e, by Tagazhi Sivasankara Pillai—Narasimhan incorporates multiple ways of looking at the translations and does not focus on any one language in isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052989890800,"sku":"9788132109549","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9788132109549_p0.jpg?v=1763725016","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9788132109549","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}