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Publication details [#5848]
Stahl, Aletha. 2000. Does hortense have a Hoo-Hoo? Gender, consensus, and the translation of Gisèle Pineau’s L’espérance-macadam. In Malena, Anne, ed. Les Antilles en traduction [The Carribean in translation]. Special issue of Traduction Terminologie Rédaction (TTR) 13 (2): 127–148.
Publication type
Article in Special issue
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Title as subject
Abstract
This article uses an experiment in translating Guadeloupean writer Gisèle Pineau's novel L'espérance-macadam via consensus as a point of departure for analyzing the broader context of translating the French Caribbean for an English-speaking public. Previous efforts at translating recent French Caribbean fiction have focused on the challenge of representing the linguistic spectrum specific to the franco- and creolophone Caribbean. Here, it is suggested that Pineau's particular choices in inflecting French with Creole represent women in important ways, and that an awareness of this gendering of language is germane to translation into English. It is also acknowledged that desires on the part of English-speaking translators are not necessarily innocent but that an awareness of gender and local specificities can contribute to the consensuc process entailed in publishing translations and should be part of ongoing debates concerning the French Caribbean in general.
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