
The Caribbean in Translation
Remapping Thresholds of Dislocation
Laëtitia Saint-Loubert(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 4. September 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-78997-198-9 (ISBN)
Description
«This fine, scholarly, richly detailed and persuasively argued book is an original and timely contribution to debates about why translation and multilingualism matter in a time when rising waters may deprive us all of island futures.» (Michael Cronin, Irish Journal of French Studies, No. 22, 2022)
This book investigates twentieth- and twenty-first-century Caribbean literatures in translation. Covering three of the largest linguistic areas of the region - the so-called English-, French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean - the volume offers a comparative study of the region's literary output across a variety of genres: poems, novels, short stories and essays. Caribbean texts and their translations are analysed through the prism of the threshold, which serves a dual purpose. On a textual level, thresholds correspond to paratextual elements (e.g. prefaces, afterwords, foot/endnotes, glossaries, blurbs) that are used by various cultural agents to frame Caribbean literatures for global, regional and local audiences. On a broader level, thresholds, which both open into but also signal a limit or break, allow the author to examine and remap routes of (non)circulation for Caribbean literatures within regional, national and transnational frameworks. Analysing liminality alongside Glissantian notions that interrogate authorship, transparency, originality and hospitality in translation, the book tests the applicability of relational thinking to the imperatives of translation and literary circulation. Ultimately, the author asks whether traditional core-periphery models of global literary traffic can be challenged, inviting the reader to envisage alternative pathways of cultural exchange from Southern, archipelagic locations.
This book was the winner of the 2018 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Comparative Literature.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
4 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
396 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78997-198-9 (9781789971989)
DOI
10.3726/b15104
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Person
Laëtitia Saint-Loubert completed a PhD in Caribbean studies at the University of Warwick. She is a practising literary translator and has worked as an instructor of French and English at the University of Warwick (2015-2017) and Université de La Réunion (2017-2020), respectively. Her current research investigates Caribbean literatures in translation and focuses on bibliodiversity and non-vertical modes of circulation for Caribbean and Indian Ocean literatures. The Caribbean in Translation: Remapping Thresholds of Dislocation is her first monograph.
Content
Contents: Introduction: The Caribbean in Translation: On Textual Thresholds and Archipelagic Crossings - Relocating Thresholds in Caribbean and Translation Studies - Mediating Authenticity for Caribbean Literatures in Translation - The Trial of the Border: From Inhospitable Thresholds to Liminal Reciprocities - (Re)translating Cesaire's Cahier: Towards a Decolonization of Paratextual Practices? - Sub-Liminal Correspondences: Transoceanic Creolizations in the Making - Towards a Caribbeanization of Translation Practices and Transnational Literary Circulation - Conclusion: Rethinking Translation Studies from Caribbean Meridians: When Thresholds Become Relational Ecotones.