The Interior Landscape by A.K. Ramanujan

In this condition, writing is a means of redressal, and expresses recuperation.

This notion applies to the processes by which some kind of gain is accomplished, despite loss, either as motive for, and justification of, voluntary migration, or as retrieval from involuntary displacement. In the second instance, translation entails 'changing or adapting to another use' ( SHOED 3, OED 3.a). For this condition, translation is a form of removal as loss, and writing is an elegiac delineation and acknowledgment of that loss. This sense describes what happens to a person who travels away from a place (or time, or state of being) that may be designated as a metonymic token for home, community, or sense of belonging. In the first instance, translation entails the 'removal or conveyance from one person, place, time, or condition to another' ( SHOED 1, OED I.1.a). In this paper I wish to speak of the diasporic condition as a form of translation. Archiving, redistribution, orrepublication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires thenotification of the journal and consent of the author. Copyright law, and it may be archived andredistributed in electronic form, provided that the editors are notifiedand no fee is charged for access. Patke, all rights reserved.This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-useprovisions of U.S. Patke National University of SingaporeĬopyright © 2001 by Rajeev S. Patke, 'The Ambivalence of Poetic Self-Exile: the case of A.

The Interior Landscape by A.K. Ramanujan