Translating Kali's Feast

• AcknowledgementsList of Colour Plates (In the Footsteps of the Goddess...)I Remembering and Forgetting1 Kaly's Story2 Madrasi Religion in GuyanaII Ritual Desire in Postcolonial Fiction3 Crossing Dark Waters: Thinking Through the Gap4 The Devouring Mother in Wilson Harris and V.S. Naipaul5 Naipaul's Indian Darkness, Narayan's Stone Gayatri6 Gardens, Groves and Other Places and Spaces in Narayan's Novels7 Is Shakti Shanti?8 Goddesses, Ghosts and Translatability in JonestownIII The Feast and Festivities of Mother Kali9 Prologue to the Feast10 The Awakening of Mother11 The Sacred Garden12 Night Interlude13 Feast and Festivity14 Tribute15 Return to Secular Life16 Vision17 Guyana Kali Puja LexiconIV Translating Culture18 Translation, Ethnography and Literature19 Translating Kali's FeastBibliography

"An excellent contribution to the series… the strength of the book lies in its documentation of a cross-cultural tradition and its detailed observations of practices of Kali worship…" – in: The Book Review 59 (January 2002)"The book is very well researched and beautifully written. Its intermingling of the sacred and the secular, its pictorial presentation of the Kali’s feast and festivities at Blairmont temple […], and its snippets of chants and songs and poems, makes the reading of the book an experience of participating in the rituals of the puja itself." – in: Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: a journal of criticism and theory 4/1 (Fall 2002)"Translating Kali’s Feast has opened out for the reader fresh and significant paths which can and will surely be further pursued." – in: The Translator 12/1 (2006)