Hungry Translations: Relearning The World Through Radical Vulnerability

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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. Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 8 Photographs......Page 10 Series Editor’s Foreword......Page 12 Note on Translations, Transliterations, and Poems......Page 14 Aalaap......Page 16 PART ONE: Staging Stories......Page 20 PART TWO: Movement as Theater: Storylines, Scenes, Lessons, and Reflections......Page 62 Walking Together......Page 64 A Long War: Diary of a Battle: From Job Cards to Unemployment Allowance......Page 81 The Journey Continues......Page 101 PART THREE: Living in Character: “Kafan” as Hansa......Page 120 Nourishment......Page 122 Mumtaz and Budhiya......Page 125 Hansa, Karo Puratan Baat!: Based on Munshi Premchand’s story,“Kafan”......Page 138 Entangled Scripts and Bodies: Theater as Pedagogy......Page 161 Hungry for Hansa......Page 192 PART FOUR: Stories, Bodies, Movements: A Syllabus in Fifteen Acts......Page 212 Prologue......Page 214 One More Time......Page 216 Synopsis and Backdrop......Page 220 Initial Keywords, Props, Premises......Page 226 Formal Outcomes, Expectations, Grades, and Assignments......Page 230 The Fifteen Acts......Page 233 Closing Notes: Retelling Dis/Appearing Tales......Page 256 Backstage Pages......Page 274 Glossary of Selected Words and Acronyms......Page 280 Notes......Page 284 Works Cited......Page 292 Index......Page 300 Back cover......Page 320