1st Edition
Texts, Traditions, and Sacredness Cultural Translation in Kristapurāṇa
Preface
Note on Transliteration
Translator’s Note
List of Appendices
Introduction: Cultures, Scriptures, and Translation
Chapter One: Texts, Travels, and Christianities in South Asia
Chapter Two: Into the Languages of this Land
Chapter Three: Genre, Novelization, and Translatability in Kristapurāṇa
Chapter Four: (Re)Painting Landscapes, (Re)Inventing Tradition
Chapter Five: Speaking After
Select Bibliography
Appendices
Index
Biography
Annie Rachel Royson holds a PhD in Translation Studies and Comparative Literature from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India. She currently teaches literature and language at the School of Liberal Studies, Pandit Deendayal Energy University. Her research interests include Translation Studies, Comparative Literature, Travel Writings, Religious Studies, and Christian Writings in South Asia. She is currently working on the idea of cultural translation, genre, and landscapes through a study of South Asian Christian texts. Her research on Kristapurāṇa and translation has been presented at Indian and international academic conferences and published in journals such as Church History and Religious Culture, Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ), Nidan: International Journal of Indian Studies, and Translation Studies. She was an Associate at the Nida School of Translation Studies 2016, a Graduate Teaching Fellow at IIT Gandhinagar for the fall semester of 2016, a Sahapedia-UNESCO Fellow 2018, and a recipient of the Scientific and Solidarity Bursary of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies in the year 2021.
