Skill Enhancement Course (SEC) Translation Studies Unit- 5 ( Translation and other significant issues )

Today Topic- Skill Enhancement Course (SEC) Translation Studies Unit- 5  ( Translation and other significant issues ) Semester- 3/4
Subject- Sol/ Du / Regular / Ncweb 

Q. Define Translation and Gender.

• Feminism Theory: It is as "well as a Political, Culturally or economic movement aimed at establishing equal rights and legal Protection for women.

• Women are usually asked to be faithful and the question of fidelity never arises with males.

•  the feminist theorist  point out that there is a clear parallel between  the way patriarchal society has

• marginalized and tried to silence woman and the way a translator is viewed in the realm of translation studies.

Q. Why are the same text being translated again and again?

• Each translation differs from others because of many reasons- sometimes political, linguistic, sometimes interpretational, sometimes cultural.

• Though every translator is a different individual having his or her own ideological position and context which determines the way the translator reads and interprets a particular text.

• therefore there is a need to evaluate the different translations to understand the text in a much better fashion.

Q. What the Dalit writer and other scholars stared writing about the Dalit to make the world know about the Dalits? 

• The atrocities that they have suffered.

• The humiliation that were a part of their everyday life.

• The way they are being treated worse than animals with in the Chaturvarna system.

• The way in which they need to educate themselves as Ambedkar talked about.

• The way they need to come together as a force and agitate against the Brahminical forces.

• The way they need to assert their rights as provided in the Constitution of India.

Q. Write the note on the topic of translation and Cast.

• When one comes on the topic of “translation and cast” one naturally wonders what the relationship between the two is.

• In the recent years we have seen that the writing has been taking shape in a much more coherent  from under the presence of the writers from the Dalit community.

• To understand the notion of dalit one needs to understand the nature and length of the sufferings and traumas that Dalit suffered for ages.

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