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Author
Tejaswini Niranjana has been visiting the Caribbean for over a
decade. She is a scholar of popular culture and music in Jamaica and Trinidad, and has most
recently (2004) been to the islands to help make a film on musical collaborations between the
Indian singer Remo Fernandes and Caribbean musicians. She has lectured at the University of
the West Indies, Mona and St.Augustine campuses, on cultural studies, feminist theory,
colonialism and translation. Tejaswini has a Master's degree from Bombay University and a
Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She taught at the University of
Hyderabad (1988-1998) before helping to found the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society,
Bangalore. In Hyderabad, she was a member of Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies
which provided the context for her questions in those years. She is part of the editorial
collective of the journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studies which incorporates South-South insights
in formulating perspectives from Asia. Tejaswini is also a well-known translator: she has
translated Pablo Neruda and Shakespeare into Kannada, and several Kannada novels and shorter
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Siting Translation:
History, Post-structuralism and the Colonial Context
About the philosophy and politics of translation,
this book - in the wake of Edward Said's landmark Orientalism - was one of the early explorations into
the discursive legacies of colonialism in South Asia. Beginning with the genealogy of translation theory
(in relation to anthropology, colonial administration and missionary activities in the 18th and 19th
centuries) and moving through the conceptual frameworks set in place by Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida
and Paul de Man, the book ends with a discussion of the persistence of colonial patterns in present-day
translations of 12th century Kannada texts into English.
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Interrogating Modernity:
Culture and Colonialism in India,
edited with P.Sudhir and Vivek Dhareshwar
Known in hindsight as the first Cultural Studies reader in India, this
anthology, which has an Introduction by the editors, tried to bring together diverse strands of
theorizing by Indian scholars about questions of colonialism, culture and modernity. Taken together, the
essays contribute to a politically sensitive mode of cultural analysis that contributes to the mapping of
futures which are as complex as our pasts.
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Work-in-Progress:
A collection of essays in feminist theory, cinema, and media studies.
An anthology on Thinking through Region, co-edited with Sanghamitra Misra and
Rochelle Pinto.
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