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Sivanarayanan, Anushiya; Rajkumar, N. T.
World literature today, 05/2004, Letnik: 78, Številka: 2Journal Article
Sivanarayanan shares her experiences in translating the Tamil Dalit poetry of India, stressing that she was attempting to take on the task of interpreting and illuminating voices of a culture that had for centuries been silenced by the country's caste system. She says that translating poetry from one culture to another involves being sensitive to cultural registers, such as those of the Tamil poems of N. T. Rajkumar, in which references to the religion require not simply an understanding of the various names of the mother goddesses he lists, but an easy sense of comfort within the folk culture described.
