Many Roads Through Paradise: An Anthology of Sri Lankan Literature By Shyam Selvadurai, ED. Penguin Books Limited, 2014, 509 pp.

Birte Heidemann

doi:10.1017/pli.2017.52

Many Roads Through Paradise: An Anthology of Sri Lankan Literature By Shyam Selvadurai, ED. Penguin Books Limited, 2014, 509 pp.

The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry ◽

10.1017/pli.2017.52 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 250-251

Author(s):

Birte Heidemann

Keyword(s):

Sri Lankan ◽

Shyam Selvadurai

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Imagining Sri Lanka

10.28971/142010ad31 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Derick Ariyam

Keyword(s):

Sri Lanka ◽

Michael Ondaatje ◽

Sri Lankan ◽

Shyam Selvadurai ◽

The Family ◽

Anil's Ghost

<p>Analyzes the works of three Sri Lankan expatriates, the writers, Shyam Selvadurai and Michael Ondaatje, and the artist, M.I.A., giving particular attention to Selvadurai's Funny Boy and Ondaatje's Running in the Family, Anil's Ghost, and The Cinnamon Peeler. Though all three have been charged as "inauthentic" due to their dislocated positions, uncovers the various productive and complicated ways Sri Lanka has been configured by those outside its shores.</p>

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Revisiting Cultural Aspects of Translation: The Case of “Running in the Family” and “Funny Boy” in French

Respectus Philologicus ◽

10.15388/respectus.2019.35.40.13 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 35 (40) ◽

pp. 182-194

Author(s):

Niroshini Gunasekera ◽

Adriana Şerban

Keyword(s):

Full Article ◽

Michael Ondaatje ◽

Sri Lankan ◽

Audience Design ◽

Cultural Aspects ◽

Shyam Selvadurai ◽

The Family ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Cultural Content

[full article and abstract in English] In this study, we propose to examine some of the challenges and opportunities afforded to the translators by the culturally rich “Running in the Family” (1982) by Michael Ondaatje and “Funny Boy” (1994) by Shyam Selvadurai, through a comparison of the initial texts – which are laden with Sri Lankan cultural content – and their French translations: “Un air de famille” (1991) by Marie-Odile Fortier-Masek and, respectively, “Drôle de garcon” (2000) by Frédéric Limare and Susan Fox-Limare (2000). After a brief discussion of audience design and communication in translation, we focus on the interplay of implicitation and explicitation, drawing on examples from the texts, in particular from the culinary domain. We consider the translators’ options in light of the imperative to design for a new readership and suggest that relevance – which is a matter of degree – is pursued through a mix of choices of unequal suitability.

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