Gitanjali Across Worlds: How Translation Became Transcreation

By: Arun Kumar Ghosh

Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali has long been celebrated as a milestone of spiritual lyricism and modern Indian identity. Yet the creative metamorphosis through which its Bengali verses became an English world classic remains underexplored. This book, Gitanjali Across Worlds: How Translation Became Transcreation, re-examines Gitanjali as a living text that moves across languages, cultures, and aesthetic systems. Combining translation theory, comparative poetics, and digital humanities, it traces how Tagore's act of self-translation evolves into a process of transcreation-where poetry becomes re-imagined art. From Bengali manuscripts to English publications, from Rabindra Sangeet to global adaptations, this work reveals how one text continually transcends linguistic borders to embody the idea of transliterature: literature that exists between languages and beyond nations. This is a ground-breaking seminal study of Tagore's genius as a translator, poet, and cultural bridge between East and West.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GLF7QNLC
• ISBN13: 9798902969198
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Notion Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"