A Kaleidoscopic View of the Glocal Through Translation: The Case of  Carmen Escobedo's El día a que fuimos a coger fresas en Scarborough

Sergio Díaz Menéndez

doi:10.5565/rev/indialogs.302

A Kaleidoscopic View of the Glocal Through Translation: The Case of Carmen Escobedo's El día a que fuimos a coger fresas en Scarborough

Authors

Sergio Díaz Menéndez University of Oviedo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4407-4795

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Abstract

This is a review of Professor Carmen Escobedo's translation into Spanish of Ranu Uniyal's collection of poems The Day We Went Strawberry-Picking in Scarborough (2018). This translation is entitled El día que fuimos a coger fresas en Scarborough, and was published by Camelot Editions in 2020. The choice of this year was not haphazard, for it was the year of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, which created a need for natural settings and looking after one's mental health. These are leitmotifs in Uniyal's poems, whose analysis can be divided into four topics: education and family, the question of gender, spirituality and nature as a source of life. The study of this Uniyal’s poem collection also paves the way to analyse newer ones, which are being translated at the moment and whose reception in Spain would be more than acceptable.

Keywords

Literary translation, Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism, Gender Studies, Indian poetry, Literary reception, Glocal

References

UNIYAL, RANU (2006). Across the Divide, Calicut: Yeti Books.

UNIYAL, RANU (2012). December Poems, Calcutta: Writers Workshop.

UNIYAL, RANU (2018). The Day We Went Strawberry-Picking in Scarborough, Odisha: Dhauly Books.

UNIYAL, RANU (2020). El día que fuimos a coger fresas en Scarborough [translation by Carmen Escobedo de Tapia], Oviedo: Camelot.

UNIYAL, RANU (2020). “Beyond the bend”. Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, vol. 24, no. 2, October: 1-20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52086/001c.23527

Author Biography

Sergio Díaz Menéndez, University of Oviedo

SERGIO DÍAZ MENÉNDEZ is a certified Secondary School teacher at the Department of Education of the Principality of Asturias. He has also worked as an associate lecturer at the University of Oviedo and the International University of La Rioja. His main lines of research are language learning and postcolonial literatures, particularly contemporary English and French speaking literatures from the Indian Ocean.