Moving towards the Translational Turn in Cultural Studies

It can be widely agreed that translation and translation studies have never had such a good and respectable place, as today. Over the last two to three decades, translation has become a more prolific, more visible, more respectable activity than perhaps ever before. Translation in no way remains restricted to binary relationships between national languages, national literatures or national cultures. And alongside translation itself, a new field of academic study has come into existence, initially called Translatology and now Translation Studies, which has gathered great academic momentum. The present paper will make an attempt to trace out the trajectory of growth of Translational Turn in Cultural Studies.