Language Smugglers
Postlingual Literatures and Translation within the Canadian Context
Series: Literatures, Cultures, Translation;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 20 March 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781501394157
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 215x139 mm
- Language English 697
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Long description:
Translation is commonly understood as the rendering of a text from one language to another - a border-crossing activity, where the border is a linguistic one. But what if the text one is translating is not written in "one language;" indeed, what if no text is ever written in a single language?
In recent years, many books of fiction and poetry published in so-called Canada, especially by queer, racialized and Indigenous writers, have challenged the structural notions of linguistic autonomy and singularity that underlie not only the formation of the nation-state, but the bulk of Western translation theory and the field of comparative literature.
Language Smugglers argues that the postnational cartographies of language found in minoritized Canadian literary works force a radical redefinition of the activity of translation altogether. Canada is revealed as an especially rich site for this study, with its official bilingualism and multiculturalism policies, its robust translation industry and practitioners, and the strong challenges to its national narratives and accompanying language politics presented by Indigenous people, the province of Québec, and high levels of immigration.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Note on Translations
Introduction: Linguistic Borders, Nationalism, and Translation in Quebec and Canada
1. Translation as Mapping: Denaturalizing National Cartographies of Language
2. Against Standardization: Gregory Scofield and France Daigle Talk Back
3. The Linguistic Abject: The Queering of Language in Kevin Lambert and Joshua Whitehead
4. Motherless Tongues: The Unfamiliar Writings and Translations of Oana Avasilichioaei and Nathanaël
Conclusion. Towards a Postlingual Practice of Translation: Translating (in) the Twenty-First Century
Works Cited
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