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Asse'tou Xango / Translation / Translation Artists / Winter-2022 / World Literature

Give Your Daughters Difficult Names — Assétou Xango

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  Give your daughters difficult names. Names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name does not allow me to trust anyone who cannot pronounce it right.”       —Warsan Shire   Many of my contemporaries, role models, But especially, Ancestors   Have a name that brings the tongue to …

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Indian Literature / Letters / Radha Chakravarty / Translation / Translation Artists / Winter-2022

Re-writing Tagore: Translation as Performance – Radha Chakravarty

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          In a dramatic sequence towards the end of Rabindranath Tagore’s play “Natir Puja” (1926; translated into English as “The Dancing Girl’s Worship”), the court dancer Srimati is publicly humiliated, forced to perform before the altar where the Buddha was once worshipped, in violation of her faith in Buddhism. But she subverts the situation, casting off her costume and ornaments as …

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