How Postcolonial Translation Theory Transforms Francophone African Studies

Despite the move away from conventional views of translation as the linguistic transfer of meaning from an original text to a derived copy, the handful of works that use post-colonial translation theory to analyze works of Europhone2 African literature nevertheless draw upon discourses of origins an...

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Published in:	The Comparatist 2014-10, Vol.38 (1), p.188-205
Main Author:	GARANE, JEANNE
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1900-1999 African culture African literature African literature (French) Analysis Authors, French Black studies Blacks Essays Etymology French language literature French literature French writers GENERAL ARTICLES History and criticism Language translation Linguistics Literary criticism Literary translation Negritude poetry Poetry Postcolonial literature postcolonial poetry Postcolonialism Senegalese literature Senghor, Léopold Sédar Studies Study and teaching Text structure Theory Translation theories translation theory Translations Translations and translating Writers Writing
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Summary:	Despite the move away from conventional views of translation as the linguistic transfer of meaning from an original text to a derived copy, the handful of works that use post-colonial translation theory to analyze works of Europhone2 African literature nevertheless draw upon discourses of origins and/or authenticity, if only in passing. In the first section of the following essay, I analyze such discourses with the understanding that the revelation of certain blind spots can serve to render postcolonial translation theory more viable for the study of Europhone African literatures and perhaps for the field of postcolonial studies as well.3 In the second section, I use post-colonial translation theory to re-read certain founding texts in Francophone Studies with the intent of offering a new perspective to that field.\n [in order to feed its claim to universality, the ideal of Sameness required ... the flesh of the world.
ISSN:	0195-7678 1559-0887 1559-0887