Why translation is mourning in the Gujarati avatar of poet Arun Kolatkar's epic 'Sarpa Satra'
Why translation is mourning in the Gujarati avatar of poet Arun Kolatkar’s epic ‘Sarpa Satra’ The work is a subversive retelling of the apocalyptic rite of snake sacrifice, which is the opening myth of The Mahabharata. Arun Kolatkar. In its theoretical discourse, translation has often been described as “discovery”, “recovery”, “rewriting”, “retelling”, “criticism”, and so on. However, it has never been conceptualised as an act of “mourning” or a process of “grieving”, even though the tradition of grieving is one of the oldest in the history of human c...
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