Caesurae International Conference 2018
Tue, 09 Oct
|Maulana Azad National Urdu University
Translation Across Border: Genres and Geography
Time & Location
09 Oct 2018, 9:00 am – 11 Oct 2018, 9:00 pm
Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Urdu University Road, Near LNT Towers, Telecom Nagar, Gachibowli, Weaker Section Colony, Khajaguda, Manikonda, Hyderabad, Telangana 500032, India
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About the event
Etymologically translation means carrying across, and commonsensically, we assume that the carrying happens across language. But, the boundaries of a language are often coterminous with the boundaries of nation, state, culture, and community (whether imagined or real). What happens when a text crosses these boundaries is an interesting phenomenon to explore in Translation Studies and allied fields. The questions that such boundary-crossing raises are many: What happens to the text? What happens to the nation, state, culture, community into which it is translated? What happens to the language, nation, state, culture, community which allows its texts to go across? What happens to the translator, when texts are moved across borders? How do translators move? These questions have been addressed to some extent and fascinating answers are before us. Still, there are many facets of this phenomenon of moving across borders which need to be investigated and conceptualized.
In recent times,…