UID:
almahu_9949702085302882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004486218
,
9789042013810
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 43
Content:
Translating Kali's Feast is an interdisciplinary study of the Goddess Kali bringing together ethnography and literature within the theoretical framework of translation studies. The idea for the book grew out of the experience and fieldwork of the authors, who lived with Indo-Caribbean devotees of the Hindu Goddess in Guyana. Using a variety of discursive forms including oral history and testimony, field notes, songs, stories, poems, literary essays, photographic illustrations, and personal and theoretical reflections, it explores the cultural, aesthetic and spiritual aspects of the Goddess in a diasporic and cross-cultural context. With reference to critical and cultural theorists including Walter Benjamin and Julia Kristeva, the possibilities offered by Kali (and other manifestations of the Goddess) as the site of translation are discussed in the works of such writers as Wilson Harris, V.S. Naipaul and R.K. Narayan. The book articulates perspectives on the experience of living through displacement and change while probing the processes of translation involved in literature and ethnography and postulating links between 'rite' and 'write,' Hindu 'leela' and creole 'play.'.
Note:
Acknowledgements -- List of Colour Plates (In the Footsteps of the Goddess.) -- I Remembering and Forgetting -- 1 Kaly's Story -- 2 Madrasi Religion in Guyana -- II Ritual Desire in Postcolonial Fiction -- 3 Crossing Dark Waters: Thinking Through the Gap -- 4 The Devouring Mother in Wilson Harris and V.S. Naipaul -- 5 Naipaul's Indian Darkness, Narayan's Stone Gayatri -- 6 Gardens, Groves and Other Places and Spaces in Narayan's Novels -- 7 Is Shakti Shanti? -- 8 Goddesses, Ghosts and Translatability in Jonestown -- III The Feast and Festivities of Mother Kali -- 9 Prologue to the Feast -- 10 The Awakening of Mother -- 11 The Sacred Garden -- 12 Night Interlude -- 13 Feast and Festivity -- 14 Tribute -- 15 Return to Secular Life -- 16 Vision -- 17 Guyana Kali Puja Lexicon -- IV Translating Culture -- 18 Translation, Ethnography and Literature -- 19 Translating Kali's Feast -- Bibliography.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Translating Kali's Feast : The Goddess in Indo-Caribbean Ritual and Fiction. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2000 ISBN 9789042013810
Language:
English
