Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation

AvIoanna Chatzidimitriou

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation proposes a novel theoretical lens for the study of translation as theme and practice in works by four translingual, francophone authors: Vassilis Alexakis, Chahdortt Djavann, Nancy Huston, and Andreï Makine. In particular, it argues that translation allows for the most productive encounter with otherness when it is practiced in its "estuarine" dimension. When two foreign bodies of water come into contact in an estuary, often a new environment is created at their shared border that does not, however, invalidate the distinctiveness (chemical, biological, geological etc.) of either fresh or sea water. Similarly, texts translated from one language to another, should ideally not transform into but rather relate to their new host’s linguistic and cultural codes in ways that account both for their undiluted strangeness and the missteps, gaps, and discontinuities, the challenging yet novel and productive articulations of relationality that proliferate at the border of the encounter.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-09-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
Antal sidor:202
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367549121

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Ioanna Chatzidimitriou is Assistant Professor of French at Muhlenberg College. Her research interests lie in translingual francophonie, translation studies, and contemporary France. She has published widely on contemporary francophone authors and is currently co-editing an essay collection titled Vassilis Alexakis: chemins croisés.

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Introductiona. The New Cosmopolitanb. Translation Studies and the Estuaryc. Delimiting the EstuaryAndreï Makine and the Limits of Domesticationa. Le testament français as Faltering Estuaryb. Cultural Stratification and Hypoxic Environments Nancy Huston’s Estuarine Ecosystems and the Minora. Palimpsestual Echoes in Trois fois septembre b. Limbes/Limbo: Undermining the MajorVassilis Alexakis and the Limits of Self-Translationa. La langue maternelle and the Politics of Self-Translationb. Eliding the Colonial: The Linguistic Ethics of Les mots étrangersA Native Informant in the Estuary: Chahdortt Djavann and Irana. Cultural and Linguistic Multiplicities in Comment peut-on être français, Je ne suis pas celle que je suis and La dernière séanceb. Translational Stifling in La muetteConclusion