• Ann Susan Aleyas

The generative ethos behind the concept of World Literature, a derivative as well as constituent of the project of modernity, is recognised at interfaces of communitarian/individual interactions. Accelerated by globalization, these interfaces are made dynamic by the circulation of people or/and cultural signs. The iterative process of translation and trans-formation at these interfaces create what is called a shared global space. The proposed paper attempts to push the boundaries and explore the possibility of a new mode of articulation, i.e. through affect; being in itself a medium of translation. The possibilities of tracing affect as a medium of subject identification/difference is one that challenges this complacent assumption of agency. The Eurocentric dictations of equivalence achieved through consciously self-effacing human subject is often tempered merely by the logic of rationality, if not limited within the realm of ethical consciousness. This logic consequently sweeps the landscape of affective experience to the periphery of critical attention; an experience which has the potential to a dissolve interfaces of bounded signifying systems. The paper will attempt a close study of Amitav Ghosh‘s Sea of Poppies, tracing the emerging possibility of affect as medium of translation; a category left out in the discourses on World Literature.

Amitav Ghosh, Affect, Translation, Cosmopolitanism

"Detouring Translation through Affect : A study of Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.666-671, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907S06.pdf

"Detouring Translation through Affect : A study of Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp666-671, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907S06.pdf