• Anitha Merin Vincent

This paper looks at how translation, as an act of communication, decodes and encodes the ‘invariant core’ – the consciousness of the other. Nadugadhika is a text rooted in the culture of the tribals of Wayanad, one of the districts in the Malabar region of Kerala. By a close analysis of K. J. Baby’s Nadugadhika in original and translation by Shirly M. Joseph, the paper looks at translation of performance texts. This paper also focuses on the issues involved in decoding the text of a marginalized culture to a dominant culture: issues related to the interpretation of material and social culture, including law, economics, history, values and world view. Nadugadhika may be viewed as an act of resistance. The text creates a world composed of multitude of codes, discourses and languages. The question is whether a reader of the translated text could enter the text’s linguistic zone? By analyzing the various nuances of translating performance, we see how the translation emphasizes the importance of reinscribing the marginalized consciousness into historical discourses.

Translation, Theatre, History, Language, Tribals of Wayanad, Cultural Untranslatability

"Translating the Voice of the Other in Performance", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.61-64, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809011.pdf

"Translating the Voice of the Other in Performance", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp61-64, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1809011.pdf