Abstract

The tumultuous politics of the post-Independence period in Bombay/Mumbai, and the creation of the linguistic states, released multiple and contradictory energies towards a re-examination of the Marathi language and its valence in linguistic, literary, social and cultural contexts. This essay employs the bilingual poetry of Arun Kolatkar and the Marathi-language poetry of R.K. Joshi to show the ways in which the sathottari poetry of Bombay engages with these socio-political questions of language and region by channelling the principles of concrete poetry and making the visual presence of the language (in its script, its lines, its presence on the page) a part of its meaning-making process.

摘要

独立后时期孟买/孟买的动荡政治以及语言国家的建立释放了多种相互矛盾的能量来重新审视马拉地语及其在语言，文学，社会和文化语境中的价位。本文采用阿伦·科拉特卡尔（Arun Kolatkar）的双语诗歌和RK Joshi的马拉地语诗歌，通过传播具体诗歌的原理并使之成为现实，来展示孟买的叙事诗与语言和地区的这些社会政治问题的互动方式。语言的视觉存在（在其脚本，行，在页面中的存在）是其意义形成过程的一部分。