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Can the subaltern joke? Christi A. Merrill answers by invoking riddling, oral-based fictions from Hindi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, and Urdu that dare to laugh at what traditions often keep hidden-whether spouse abuse, ethnic violence, or the uncertain legacies of a divinely wrought sex change. Herself a skilled translator, Merrill uses these examples to investigate the expectation that translated work should allow the non-English-speaking subaltern to speak directly to the English-speaking reader. S
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- Author
- Christi A Merrill; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780823229550
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Language Learning, History, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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