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Publication details [#8914]
Wilson, Elizabeth A. 2000. Translating Caribbean landscape. In Raguet-Bouvart, Christine and Paul Bensimon, eds. Traduire la littérature des Caraïbes / La plausibilité d'une traduction : le cas de La Disparition de Perec [Translating the literature of teh Carribean/The plausibility of translation: the case of La Disparition by Perec]. Special issue of Palimpsestes 12: 15–30.
Publication type
Article in Special issue
Publication language
English
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Person as a subject
Title as subject
Abstract
This paper uses as source texts extracts from Derek Walcott's The Star-Apple Kingdom; Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove and La Vie scélérate, and Edouard Glissant's La Lézarde and their translations. The "Caribbeanness" of these texts resides at the first level in the physical landscape which embodies, represents, reflects, signifies, the psychological, sociological and emotional landscapes of which the external natural environment is at times an objective correlative. Given the complexity of the language situations in the Caribbean, where the target language, "English", as well as the source language, "French", embrace a rich creole continuum, the paper examines how the translators of these texts (European, American, Caribbean) have represented for their readers the original landscapes and the ways in which they engage the reader's imagination.
Source : Based on abstract in journal