Experts often assume that the poor, hungry, rural, and/or precarious need external interventions. They frequently fail to recognize how the same people create politics and knowledge by living and honing their own dynamic visions. How might scholars and teachers working in the Global North ethically participate in producing knowledge in ways that connect across different meanings of struggle, hunger, hope, and the good life?Informed by over twenty years of experiences in India and the United States, Hungry Translations bridges these divides with a fresh approach to academic theorizing. Through in-depth reflections on her collaborations with activists, theatre artists, writers, and students, Richa Nagar discusses the ongoing work of building embodied alliances among those who occupy different locations in predominant hierarchies. She argues that such alliances can sensitively engage difference through a kind of full-bodied immersion and translation that refuses comfortable closures or transparent renderings of meanings. While the shared and unending labor of politics makes perfect translation--or retelling--impossible, hungry translations strive to make our knowledges more humble, more tentative, and more alive to the creativity of struggle.
Experts often assume that the poor, hungry, rural, and/or precarious need external interventions. They frequently fail to recognize how the same people create politics and knowledge by living and honing their own dynamic visions. How might scholars and teachers working in the Global North ethically participate in producing knowledge in ways that connect across different meanings of struggle, hunger, hope, and the good life?Informed by over twenty years of experiences in India and the United States, Hungry Translations bridges these divides with a fresh approach to academic theorizing. Through in-depth reflections on her collaborations with activists, theatre artists, writers, and students, Richa Nagar discusses the ongoing work of building embodied alliances among those who occupy different locations in predominant hierarchies. She argues that such alliances can sensitively engage difference through a kind of full-bodied immersion and translation that refuses comfortable closures or transparent renderings of meanings. While the shared and unending labor of politics makes perfect translation--or retelling--impossible, hungry translations strive to make our knowledges more humble, more tentative, and more alive to the creativity of struggle.
Zusammenfassung
Richa Nagar is Professor of the College in the College of Liberal Arts and a core faculty member in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her books include Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism, Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India, and A World of Difference: Encountering and Contesting Difference.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsPhotographsSeries Editor's ForewordNote on Translations, Transliterations, and PoemsAalaapPART ONE: Staging StoriesPART TWO: Movement as Theater: Storylines, Scenes, Lessons, and ReflectionsWalking TogetherA Long War: Diary of a Battle: From Job Cards to Unemployment AllowanceThe Journey ContinuesPART THREE: Living in Character: "Kafan" as HansaNourishmentMumtaz and BudhiyaHansa, Karo Puratan Baat!: Based on Munshi Premchand's story,"Kafan"Entangled Scripts and Bodies: Theater as PedagogyHungry for HansaPART FOUR: Stories, Bodies, Movements: A Syllabus in Fifteen ActsPrologueOne More TimeSynopsis and BackdropInitial Keywords, Props, PremisesFormal Outcomes, Expectations, Grades, and AssignmentsThe Fifteen ActsClosing Notes: Retelling Dis/Appearing TalesBackstage PagesGlossary of Selected Words and AcronymsNotesWorks CitedIndexBack cover
