An anthropogenic pandemic has alerted humankind to the importance of and its estrangement from minor forms of life on the planet. A pandemic of another kind, no less lethal, is seen to have split up humans simultaneously, one that thrived on majoritarian impulses and ethnic supremacy. This paper views both these crises as pathologies of epistemology and communication and accordingly pleads to address them semiotically. By examining the politics of selection and translation of Nazir Mansuri's Gujarati fiction, this paper seeks to define the contours of a minority text and a minority praxis of translation both of which get marginalised for their political and cultural attitudes amid the sweeping tides of majoritarian, capitalist and consumerist ideologies. It attempts to examine the extent to which Mansuri's fiction, which operate in an ecosemiosphere, fostering 'interspecies dialogues and semiotic engagements' (Maran, 2021) can resist the hegemony of literary technosphere in which symbolic cultural codes and logic of market prevail. Ensconced in the minoritarian understanding of language, literature, culture and worldview, Mansuri's fiction offers a ray of hope in the age of Anthropocene and its eco-sensitive translation, I argue, is not just a cultural need but a civilisational project and a planetary responsibility.

Hemang Ashwinkumar

Journal for Cultural Research

JouJournal for Cultural Research is an international journal, based in Lancaster University"s Institute for Cultural Research. It is interested in essays concerned with the conjuncture between culture and the many domains and practices in relation to which it is usually defined, including, for example, media, politics, technology, economics, society, art and the sacred.     Culture is no longer, if it ever was, singular. It denotes a shifting multiplicity of signifying practices and value systems that provide a potentially infinite resource of academic critique, investigation and ethnographic or market research into cultural difference, cultural autonomy, cultural emancipation and the cultural aspects of power.

The Journal for Cultural Research is an international journal based at Lancaster University's Institute for Cultural Research. It focuses on essays that explore the intersection of culture with various domains and practices, such as media, politics, technology, economics, society, art, and the sacred. Culture is no longer, if it ever was, singular; it signifies a shifting multiplicity of signifying practices and value systems that offer a potentially infinite resource for academic critique, investigation, and ethnographic or market research into cultural difference, cultural autonomy, cultural emancipation, and the cultural aspects of power.

《Journal for Cultural Research》是一本国际期刊，隶属于兰卡斯特大学文化研究所。该期刊关注文化与其通常定义的多个领域和实践之间的关系，包括媒体、政治、技术、经济、社会、艺术和神圣等方面。文化不再是单一的，它代表了一种不断变化的多重符号实践和价值体系，为学术批评、调查以及对文化差异、文化自主、文化解放和权力文化方面的市场研究提供了潜在的无限资源。

Of minority and multiplicity: translation in the eco- civilisational sphere

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Category	Quartile
CULTURAL STUDIES	1