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Contemporary global culture is inevitably culture in translation. It encompasses encounter, exchange, and transformation, disruption and the emergence of the totally new. Drawing on contemporary theorists in fields of cultural studies and postcolonial studies, this interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the functions of cultural translation in - and as - translocation. They analyze the uneven distribution of power and wealth alongside the unpredictable emergence of forms of agency in postcolonial and diasporic contexts, and in relation to the appetites of the global cultural and information economy. With diverse geocultural emphases, they refer to literature, film, television, electronic media, music, and other spaces of cultural gathering, collection, and performance. The essays span theoretical engagement and case study approaches, taking cultural materials and practices as objects, mediums, and agents of translocation. They contribute to vital contemporary debates about the politics of culture and peoples in translation.

Deshpande, Shashi --- Deshpande, Shashi. --- Shashi Deshpande --- Teṣpāṇṭē, Caci --- Caci Teṣpāṇṭē --- Caci Teṣpāṇṭ --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Postcolonialisme --- Littérature indienne (de l'Inde) --- Littérature de l'Inde de langue anglaise --- Deshpande (Shashi), 1938 --- -20e siècle --- Histoire et critique

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This innovative contribution to understanding the promise and contradictions of contemporary postcolonial culture applies a wide array of theoretical tools to a large body of literature. The author compares the work of established Indian writers including Bharati Mukherjee, Meena Alexander, Sara Suleri, and Sunetra Gupta to new writings by such Afro-Italian immigrant women as Ermina dell'Oro, Maria Abbebu Viarengo, Ribka Sibhatu, and Sirad Hassan. Sandra Ponzanesi's analysis highlights a set of dissymmetrical relationships that are set in the context of different imperial, linguistic, and market policies. By dealing with issues of representation linked to postcolonial literary genres, to gender an ethnicity questions, and to new cartographies of diaspora, this book imbues the postcolonial debate with a new elan.

Migration. Refugees --- English literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Africa --- India: East --- Indic literature (English) --- American literature --- Italian literature --- East Indian American women --- Immigrants' writings --- East Indians --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Africans --- East Indian Americans in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- South Asians in literature. --- Women and literature. --- Literature --- Ethnology --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indians (India) --- Indic peoples --- Writings of immigrants --- Women, East Indian American --- Women --- Ottovolante (Group of writers) --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Indo-English literature --- Indic literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- South Asian American authors --- South Asian authors --- Intellectual life. --- Littérature de l'Inde de langue anglaise --- Littérature américaine --- Littérature anglaise --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Écrits d'immigrés --- Femmes et littérature --- Femmes écrivains --- Histoire et critique --- Auteurs d'origine asiatique