Disability in Translation

List of figures. List of contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. A different idiom: translation and disability. 2. Translation as social action: the counter-discourse on the literary representation of disability. 3. Gitopadesha on wheelchairs and crutches: an alternative aesthetic. 4. Disabling normalcy in ‘Thakara’: a comparative reading of P. Padmarajan’s short story and its film adaptation. 5. Disability, translation and curriculum: a case study of Rangeya Raghav’s ‘Goongey’. 6. Translation as ‘re-presentation’: the disability spectrum in selected Urdu short stories. 7. Translating desires of the undesired: re-reading Tagore’s different women in ‘Subha’ and ‘Drishtidaan’. 8. ‘Blind’ fate and the disabled genius: postcoloniality and ‘translation’ in Saurabh Kumar Chaliha’s ‘Beethoven’. 9. Fighting against multiple bodies! Translating ‘Nāri o Nāgini’ and ‘Tamoshā’ by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay and ‘Bonjhi Gunjomālā’ by Jagadish Gupta. 10. Negotiating disability in/and translation: a reading of two Tamil short stories. 11. Reading interrupted: translating disability in ‘Subha’. 12. ‘Lohini Sagai’: translating disability, literature and culture. 13. Gendering disability in Dharamvir Bharti’s ‘Gulki Banno’: ‘The Hunchback Bride’. 14. The politics of translation: disability, language and the in-between. 15. ‘Viklang’: performing language and cripping modernity through translation. 16. Translating stigma in the postcolonial context: an analysis of Bharat Sasne’s short story ‘Mai Dukh Ki Lambi Raat’. 17. Translating rhetoricity and everyday experiences of disablement: the case of Rashid Jahan’s ‘Woh’. 18. Disability and the call for prayer: translating Khalid Jawed’s short story ‘Koobad’. Index.