91st Meridian International Writing Program The University of Iowa

Harish Trivedi

Harish Trivedi, professor of English at the University of Delhi, is the author of Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India (1993), and has co-edited Interrogating Postcolonialism (1996), Postcolonial Translations (1998) and Literature and Nation: Britain and India 1800-1990 (with Richard Allen, 2000). He also translates from Hindi into English, most recently Premchand: his Life and Times (2002). For some of his theoretical agenda see for instance
http://www.iatis.org/content/korea/abstracts/trivedi-harish.php
and
http://www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/Po-CoConf/abstracts/trivedi.htm

He is also a prolific and engaged commentator on the politics of global English. For a sharp polemic on this matter see his exchange with Susan Sontag , summarized in
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=169677
and elaborated in
http://www.britishcouncil.org/india-connecting-dec2004-westindia-outsourcing.htm

Enter Trivedi's
"Translating Culture vs. Cultural Translation"

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