Translation in Asia

Theories, Practices, Histories

Ronit Ricci, Jan van der Putten, Ronit Ricci, Jan van der Putten

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781138172180
• eBook ISBN: 9781317641193
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

The field of translation studies was largely formed on the basis of modern Western notions of monolingual nations with print-literate societies and monochrome cultures. A significant number of societies in Asia – and their translation traditions – have diverged markedly from this model. With their often multilingual populations, and maintaining a highly oral orientation in the transmission of cultural knowledge, many Asian societies have sustained alternative notions of what 'text', 'original' and 'translation' may mean and have often emphasized 'performance' and 'change' rather than simple 'copying' or 'transference'.

The contributions in Translation in Asia present exciting new windows into South and Southeast Asian translation traditions and their vast array of shared, inter-connected and overlapping ideas about, and practices of translation, transmitted between these two regions over centuries of contact and exchange. Drawing on translation traditions rarely acknowledged within translation studies debates, including Tagalog, Tamil, Kannada, Malay, Hindi, Javanese, Telugu and Malayalam, the essays in this volume engage with myriad interactions of translation and religion, colonialism, and performance, and provide insight into alternative conceptualizations of translation across periods and locales. The understanding gained from these diverse perspectives will contribute to, complicate and expand the conversations unfolding in an emerging 'international translation studies'.

Index

‘Abd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, 30

Abdullah Ibn Salam, 65, see also Kitāb masā’il ‘abdallah bin salām lin-nabi

Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi, 4, 73–5, 77–85, see also Hikayat Abdullah

Aceh, 61–2

adaptation, 28–9, 36, 39, 51, 61, 66, 107, 159, see also transcreation

Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa, 50, see also Rāmāyaṇa

al-Ghazali, 61

Ālippulavar, 29–30, 32, see also Mikuṟācu mālai

Amaramālā, 13, 15

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 152, see also Shakespeare

anuvād, 45, 54–5, see also translation terminologies

Aquinas, Thomas, 107

Arabic, 4, 28–30, 32–4, 37, 39, 58–9, 63–5, 67–8, 70, 77, 158

script, 35, 38, 76, 124, see also Jawi, pégon, and script

tarjama, 35–6, 58, see also translation terminologies

texts, 27, 30–2, 40, 61

archipelago, see Malay-Indonesian Archipelago, Indonesian Archipelago and Philippine Archipelago

Ardhakathanaka, 49

ascension (texts about), 59–60, see also Prophet Muhammad

mi‘rāj, 30

mikrat, see Serat Kadis serta Mikrat

mikrod, see Serat Mikrod Nabi Muhammad

autobiography, 49, 176, see also Ardhakathanaka and Why I am Not a Hindu

Avadhī, 49, see also Hindi

Ayodhya, 49–50

Baital Pachisi, 5...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Translation in a World of Diglossia
• Commenting Translation Concepts and Practices of Translation in Islamic Tamil Literature
• Before Translation?
• On the Untranslatability of ‘Translation’ Considerations from Java, Indonesia
• Early Discourse on Translation in Malay The Views of Abdulah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi
• Rethinking Orientalism Administrators, Missionaries and the Lingāyaths
• Translating Vice into Filipino Religious, Colonial and Nationalist Discourses on Sloth
• Translations in Romanized Malay and the Revival of Chineseness among the Peranakan in Java (1870s-1911)
• ‘Riddling-Riddling of the Ghost Crab’ Translating Literature in Cebuano
• In Tongues: Translation, Embodiment, Performance
• On Castes, Malayalams and Translations
• Notes on the Contributors
• Index