Self-Translation in the Iberian Peninsula
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 20-21
September 2013
During recent years self-translation has received
growing scholarly attention, analysing the double bilingual and bicultural
affiliations of the author-translators, their ideological stances, the
stylistic, spatial and temporary reworking and adaptation of the ST,
self-censorship or deliberate omissions and expansions. The multilingual and
diglossic situation in the Iberian Peninsula offers a perfect intercultural and
intracultural milieu to examine the political, cultural and economic
implications and consequences of self-translation. Indeed, the interactions
between official state languages (Portuguese and Spanish) and non-state
languages (Basque, Catalan and Galician) generate a series
of cultural and linguistic tensions affecting notions
of hegemony and interdependency between literary polysystems. This may be
further problematized by the fact that some self-translations are presented as
originals themselves, with both versions ‘competing’ with each other in the
same book market, or by the fact that the self-translator’s autonomy to modify
the ST for the target audience is less constrained than that of professional
translators.
Given their double role/position/affiliation as
authors and translators, self-translators are placed in a privileged position
to scrutinise peripheral and hegemonic cultural identities. The aim of this conference
is to explore the self-translators’ role as cultural mediators between
languages of disparate status in the Hispanic and Lusophone context.
Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to:
· Language politics: diglossia, bilinguism,
multilinguism
· Language/Cultural planning
· The ideologies of self-translation
· The book market and reception
· Cultural mediation
· National/territorial identities
· Subverting hegemony; centre vs. periphery
· Self-Translation as autonomous recreation
· Authorial voice/intervention/representation
The organisers intend to publish a selection of
articles stemming from this conference.
Please email a 200-word abstract of your proposed
20-minute paper or 3-people panel by 31 May 2013 to the organisers,
including name, institutional affiliation and contact details:
Dr Olga Castro (Aston University) o.castro@aston.ac.uk
Dr
Sergi Mainer (University College Cork) s.mainer@ucc.ie
