TRANSLATION: in French and Francophone Literature and Film

Contents

Introduction

Public Language and the Aesthetics of the Translating City

Translation and the Triumph of French: the Case of the Decameron

This Time “the Translation is Beautiful, Smooth, and True”: Theorizing Retranslation with the Help of Beauvoir

Redefining Translation through Self-Translation: The Case of Nancy Huston

Images et voix dans l’espace poétique de Saint-Denys Garneau: analyse du poème Le Jeu et d’extraits de ses traductions en anglais et en hongrois

Translation as Revelation

Werewere Liking as Translator and Translated

The Great White Man of Lambaréné by Bassek ba Kobhio: When Translating a Colonial Mentality Loses its Meaning

Traduire la reine Pokou: fidélité ou trahison?

Object Lessons: Metaphors of Agency in Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator” and Patrick Chamoiseau’s Solibo Magnifique

Translating Maryse Condé’s Célanire cou-coupé: Dislocations of the Caribbean Self in Richard Philcox’s Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat? A Fantastical Tale

Intercultural Politics: Translating Postcolonial Lebanese Literature in the United States

Vu d’ici et là-bas: Le roman contemporain français publié en traduction aux États-Unis