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K. Narayana Chandran
Escribir desde fuera del mundo angloamericano es algo que se aprecia por la vida social que se refleja de mundos ajenos y las rarezas lingüísticas de su elenco de personajes no nativos que produc en traducciones muy pobres. Mientras al inglés se le concede con facilidad un poder arrollador de asimilación cultural, las lenguas de las antiguas colonias, los bhashas o lenguajes de India, por ejemplo, desde las cuales se supone que se produce este tipo de
Writing from outside the Anglo -American world is appreciated largely for the social life of English in worlds elsewhere, the linguistic oddities of its non -native cast of characters that spot poor translations. While English is easily granted inordinate powers of cultural assimilation, the languages of erstwhile colonies, the b hashas of India for example, from which this ‘translation’ presumably takes place, are seen to be rather weak and ill -equipped to meet the challenging demands of western narrative gambits. This essay offers three concrete examples of English fiction where its Indian writers afford us glimpses of a phenomenon critics have barely begun to notice. The passages examined here show how the bhashas sound differently when cast in English, or how English begins to breathe an unmistakable Indian ethos and idiom. When the Indian bhashas and English so happen together, there is no discrete language from which or into which translation occurs. It is evident that the writers here are no ‘Indianizers’ of a language whose fortunes now are global in reach and affect. For rea ders in India, English is still a bhasha - in -the- making, which is neither set in a ‘colonial’ far away and long ago, nor yet within current precincts of some ‘postcolonial’ felicity. If the efforts of these writers at resisting translation win, it is becaus e they have asserted their right to imagine a language as a form of global life toward which English has taken the
