Reading against the grain: translation of India in eighteenth and nineteenth Century French travel accounts

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dc.contributor.advisorHebert, Lyse
dc.creatorBanerjee, Sanjukta
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-23T18:02:49Z
dc.date.available2016-06-23T18:02:49Z
dc.date.copyright2013-09en_US
dc.date.issued2016-06-23
dc.degree.disciplineTranslation Studiesen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster'sen_US
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Artsen_US
dc.description.abstractThe majority of research on colonial India, including research in Translation Studies, tends to approach it as an Anglophone space. The history of Indo-French encounter in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has so far been left out of mainstream discourses. This thesis addresses that neglect through an analysis of the role of language and translation in the accounts of three francophone travellers who visited the subcontinent between the 1750s and 1830s. Based on the premise of both travel and translation being integral to the construction of the foreign, it presents a context-specific re (reading) of the accounts to identify contexts and voices that challenge the largely homogenous perception of early colonial India. The possibility of uncovering heterogeneity in colonial discourses is explored through the twin themes of convergence and divergence-of contexts, ideologies, interests and contingencies. What emerges is that the similarities and differences between French and British representations in the period under discussion needs a nuanced understanding-one that can be achieved by seeing heterogeneity within instances of apparent conformity or resistance.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/31467
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.en_US
dc.subject.keywordsIndo-French encounteren_US
dc.subject.keywordsEighteenth-centuriesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsNineteenth centuriesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsColonial Indiaen_US
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage translationen_US
dc.titleReading against the grain: translation of India in eighteenth and nineteenth Century French travel accountsen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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