Monday, October 22, 2018
Update bibliography on self-translation
The bibliography on self-translation has been updated. To download the pdf-file please click here. If you have any suggestions for further entries, please leave a comment. The next update is scheduled for 1st of January 2019.
Friday, October 19, 2018
Conference: Il Canada visto dal Friuli: identità e relazioni interculturali (23-25.10.2018, Udine, Italy)
Self-translation will be a topic at the conference "Il Canada visto dal Friuli: identità e relazioni interculturali", taking place from 23 till 25 October 2018 at Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy.
- Felicia Mihali scrittrice, Montréal: De l’écriture à l’autotraduction. Parcours littéraires et aventures linguistiques
- Valeria Sperti Università Federico II, Napoli: La valeur de l’écriture translingue et multiculturelle de Nancy Huston au Canada
The complete program can be found here: https://qui.uniud.it/notizieEventi/cultura/il-canada-visto-dal-friuli-identita-e-relazioni-interculturali/programma
Sunday, October 7, 2018
CERES/CETRA Fall Lecture: Denise Merkle on (self-)translation of multilingualism in Canadian literature
Date: Wednesday 17 October 2018, from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Location: KU Leuven – Campus Brussel, Room 6303, Hermesgebouw, Stormstraat 2.
Language: French (with simultaneous interpretation into Dutch)
Title
Traduire le plurilinguisme littéraire au Canada : l’(auto-)traduction dans Petites difficultés d’existencede France Daigle, La Trahison de Laurier Gareau, Kiss of the Fur Queen de Tomson Highway
Abstract
L’hybridité était perçue sous une lumière défavorable jusqu’à relativement récemment quand des chercheurs postcoloniaux ont réévalué la présence de l’hybridité et de plurilinguisme dans les soi-disant monocultures, et les rôles qu’ils y jouent. L’état-nation considérait sa langue, sa culture et sa nation comme indissociables, malgré l’existence patente de plurilinguisme et de pluriculturalisme, écartés comme étant impurs. Il est aujourd’hui généralement admis que la pure unicité relève du mythe, les cultures étant de nature plutôt plurilingue et hybride du fait d’avoir évolué depuis des siècles et des millénaires. Pourtant, les approches traditionnelles de la traductologie, dont la recherche de l’équivalence, sont ancrées dans le modèle de « une langue, une culture, une nation » (Meylaerts, 2010). Ce sont effectivement des traductologues, dont Sherry Simon (2011), qui ont remis en question ce modèle pendant les dernières décennies du xxe siècle, dans le cadre de leurs études sur le phénomène des langues et cultures en contact dans les contextes postcoloniaux. Dans cette conférence, nous examinerons des définitions de plurilinguisme, pluriculturalisme et hybridité, ainsi que des stratégies d’(auto-) traduction retrouvées dans quelques textes littéraires canadiens plurilingues, Petites difficultés d’existencede France Daigle, La Trahison de Laurier Gareau, Kiss of the Fur Queen de Tomson Highway. Afin de saisir les enjeux du plurilinguisme, du pluriculturalisme et de l’hybridité dans ces textes, il nous faudra d’abord les situer dans leur contexte sociolinguistique respectif.
Source: https://receptionstudies.be/2018/09/19/ceres-cetra-fall-lecture-denise-merkle-on-self-translation-of-multilingualism-in-canadian-literature/
Location: KU Leuven – Campus Brussel, Room 6303, Hermesgebouw, Stormstraat 2.
Language: French (with simultaneous interpretation into Dutch)
Title
Traduire le plurilinguisme littéraire au Canada : l’(auto-)traduction dans Petites difficultés d’existencede France Daigle, La Trahison de Laurier Gareau, Kiss of the Fur Queen de Tomson Highway
Abstract
L’hybridité était perçue sous une lumière défavorable jusqu’à relativement récemment quand des chercheurs postcoloniaux ont réévalué la présence de l’hybridité et de plurilinguisme dans les soi-disant monocultures, et les rôles qu’ils y jouent. L’état-nation considérait sa langue, sa culture et sa nation comme indissociables, malgré l’existence patente de plurilinguisme et de pluriculturalisme, écartés comme étant impurs. Il est aujourd’hui généralement admis que la pure unicité relève du mythe, les cultures étant de nature plutôt plurilingue et hybride du fait d’avoir évolué depuis des siècles et des millénaires. Pourtant, les approches traditionnelles de la traductologie, dont la recherche de l’équivalence, sont ancrées dans le modèle de « une langue, une culture, une nation » (Meylaerts, 2010). Ce sont effectivement des traductologues, dont Sherry Simon (2011), qui ont remis en question ce modèle pendant les dernières décennies du xxe siècle, dans le cadre de leurs études sur le phénomène des langues et cultures en contact dans les contextes postcoloniaux. Dans cette conférence, nous examinerons des définitions de plurilinguisme, pluriculturalisme et hybridité, ainsi que des stratégies d’(auto-) traduction retrouvées dans quelques textes littéraires canadiens plurilingues, Petites difficultés d’existencede France Daigle, La Trahison de Laurier Gareau, Kiss of the Fur Queen de Tomson Highway. Afin de saisir les enjeux du plurilinguisme, du pluriculturalisme et de l’hybridité dans ces textes, il nous faudra d’abord les situer dans leur contexte sociolinguistique respectif.
Source: https://receptionstudies.be/2018/09/19/ceres-cetra-fall-lecture-denise-merkle-on-self-translation-of-multilingualism-in-canadian-literature/
Sunday, September 2, 2018
Cfp: Self-Translating as Creative Act
Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2018
Full name / name of organization: Mona Eikel-Pohen, Syracuse University
Contact email: meikelpo@syr.edu
“Self-Translations are No Translations at All” was the title of a roundtable discussion at the 2018 NEMLA in Pittsburgh, where participants discussed both their own self-translations and those by renown self-translating authors such as Nabokov and Miłes and also spatial metaphors occurring in theories of self-translation. This creative session would build upon that discussion and in this specific format allow participants to focus on presenting their own experiences with self-translation and expound phenomena and examples of their own writings and translations to be shared with other creative writers and/or (future) self-translators.
Topics to be discussed could include:
a. Decision-making in self-translation: What decisions are self-translators confronted with, and how do their decision-making processes evolve?
b. Revising, rewriting, or rewrising? How do self-translators conceive of their creative products: as revisions, rewritings, or a mixture of both? Does that stance account for all their writing or vary from text to text?
c. Voice(s) and identitie(s) in self-translation: Do self-translations create new identitie(s) in the creative writing process? How does that happen and what does that mean?
d. Transposing metaphors: What factors determine how self-translators approach the transposition of culturally charged metaphors?
e. (What) Readers in mind: Do self-translators have (ideal?) readers in mind? Who is their target audience?
This session invites creative writers and/or (future) self-translators to present and discuss final projects as well as work on the progress of their own experience with self-translation. Participants can expound phenomena and examples of their own writings and translations to be shared with other creative writers and/or (future) self-translators. The session also allows for discussion on a range of topics such as decision-making, revising, rewriting, voicing, and writing and self-translating for specific audiences.
Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/08/09/self-translating-as-creative-act
Full name / name of organization: Mona Eikel-Pohen, Syracuse University
Contact email: meikelpo@syr.edu
“Self-Translations are No Translations at All” was the title of a roundtable discussion at the 2018 NEMLA in Pittsburgh, where participants discussed both their own self-translations and those by renown self-translating authors such as Nabokov and Miłes and also spatial metaphors occurring in theories of self-translation. This creative session would build upon that discussion and in this specific format allow participants to focus on presenting their own experiences with self-translation and expound phenomena and examples of their own writings and translations to be shared with other creative writers and/or (future) self-translators.
Topics to be discussed could include:
a. Decision-making in self-translation: What decisions are self-translators confronted with, and how do their decision-making processes evolve?
b. Revising, rewriting, or rewrising? How do self-translators conceive of their creative products: as revisions, rewritings, or a mixture of both? Does that stance account for all their writing or vary from text to text?
c. Voice(s) and identitie(s) in self-translation: Do self-translations create new identitie(s) in the creative writing process? How does that happen and what does that mean?
d. Transposing metaphors: What factors determine how self-translators approach the transposition of culturally charged metaphors?
e. (What) Readers in mind: Do self-translators have (ideal?) readers in mind? Who is their target audience?
This session invites creative writers and/or (future) self-translators to present and discuss final projects as well as work on the progress of their own experience with self-translation. Participants can expound phenomena and examples of their own writings and translations to be shared with other creative writers and/or (future) self-translators. The session also allows for discussion on a range of topics such as decision-making, revising, rewriting, voicing, and writing and self-translating for specific audiences.
Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/08/09/self-translating-as-creative-act
Friday, August 3, 2018
Jhumpa Lahiri on self-translation
In a very interesting interview with Victoria Livingstone for Asymptote (16th April 2018), Jhumpa Lahiri talked about various aspects of translation, including translating other authors, being translated and translating herself. Here is a short quote about her plan to self-translate her current novel:
"I’ve just written a new novel in Italian and so my energy will go towards translating that myself. [...] I recently translated one of my short stories into English, which appeared in The New Yorker a couple of months ago. I now have more of a sense of what it will involve to translate myself. But we’ll see. That was a very short story that I had written four years ago in Italian. It was ten pages long. Translating it into English was weird, but it was also brief. I don’t know what it will be like to translate a novel, but I feel that it’s important to try. If it doesn’t feel satisfying, I may have to reconsider the choice. Right now every project I’m doing has its own set of needs and I can’t really say until I’m inside of it how I feel about it."Please click here to read the full interview.
Monday, July 30, 2018
Cfp: Transnational Voices in Self-Translation (2019 NeMLA Roundtable)
NeMLA at Columbia, United States, March 21, 2019 to March 24, 2019
Abstract:
While much has been published on the practice and process of non-authorial translation (George Steiner, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Derrida, among others), until recently, comparatively fewer critical works have focused on the phenomenon of self-translation. Though self-translation is, in its most basic sense, the process of transposing one’s own writing into another language, a number of scholars have begun to study the extent to which it can also be viewed as a creative mode of revision that is connected to specific cultural, linguistic, aesthetic, and psycholinguistic processes. Indeed, over the past decade, “self-translation studies” (see Anselmi 2012) has emerged as a new and growing field of interest in academia. In the wake of such recent texts as Self-Translation: Brokering Originality in Hybrid Culture (2013), Self-Translation and Power: Negotiating Identities in European Multilingual Contexts (2017), and On Self-Translation: Meditations on Language (2018), the “Transnational Voices in Self-Translation” roundtable panel will present some innovative perspectives on this intriguing literary phenomenon.
What is at stake when authors translate their own work? How does self-translation engender a certain sense of semantic creativity and rewriting? Can self-translation be (re-)defined? If a more complete understanding of the word “self-translation” is to be established, it will be the result of an ongoing, interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars. The panelists on this roundtable will therefore offer some preliminary answers to this growing critical debate. Panelists may focus on texts from any language or genre.
Description:
This roundtable panel will offer new perspectives on the literary process and practice of self-translation. Panelists will present their work on this topic while engaging in an interdisciplinary conversation about authors who transpose their own writing into another language. Participants will address the following questions: What is at stake when writers translate their own work? How does self-translation promote a certain sense of linguistic creativity and rewriting? And how can one (re-)define self-translation? Professors, translators, comparative literature scholars, and graduate students are invited to participate in this roundtable.
Please submit a 200-word abstract & C.V. to genewaite@gmail.com by September 15, 2018.
Contact Info:
Genevieve Waite
Contact Email:
genewaite@gmail.com
Source: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/2021432/transnational-voices-self-translation-2019-nemla-roundtable
Abstract:
While much has been published on the practice and process of non-authorial translation (George Steiner, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Derrida, among others), until recently, comparatively fewer critical works have focused on the phenomenon of self-translation. Though self-translation is, in its most basic sense, the process of transposing one’s own writing into another language, a number of scholars have begun to study the extent to which it can also be viewed as a creative mode of revision that is connected to specific cultural, linguistic, aesthetic, and psycholinguistic processes. Indeed, over the past decade, “self-translation studies” (see Anselmi 2012) has emerged as a new and growing field of interest in academia. In the wake of such recent texts as Self-Translation: Brokering Originality in Hybrid Culture (2013), Self-Translation and Power: Negotiating Identities in European Multilingual Contexts (2017), and On Self-Translation: Meditations on Language (2018), the “Transnational Voices in Self-Translation” roundtable panel will present some innovative perspectives on this intriguing literary phenomenon.
What is at stake when authors translate their own work? How does self-translation engender a certain sense of semantic creativity and rewriting? Can self-translation be (re-)defined? If a more complete understanding of the word “self-translation” is to be established, it will be the result of an ongoing, interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars. The panelists on this roundtable will therefore offer some preliminary answers to this growing critical debate. Panelists may focus on texts from any language or genre.
Description:
This roundtable panel will offer new perspectives on the literary process and practice of self-translation. Panelists will present their work on this topic while engaging in an interdisciplinary conversation about authors who transpose their own writing into another language. Participants will address the following questions: What is at stake when writers translate their own work? How does self-translation promote a certain sense of linguistic creativity and rewriting? And how can one (re-)define self-translation? Professors, translators, comparative literature scholars, and graduate students are invited to participate in this roundtable.
Please submit a 200-word abstract & C.V. to genewaite@gmail.com by September 15, 2018.
Contact Info:
Genevieve Waite
Contact Email:
genewaite@gmail.com
Source: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/2021432/transnational-voices-self-translation-2019-nemla-roundtable
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Update Bibliography on self-translation
The bibliography on self-translation has been updated. To download the pdf-file please click here. If you have any suggestions for further entries, please leave a comment. The next update is scheduled for 1st of October 2018.
Friday, June 8, 2018
Conference: Le Kala Pani dans les littératures féminines de la diaspora indienne
Self-translation is a topic at the conference "Le Kala Pani dans les littératures féminines de la diaspora indienne", which will take place Tuesday, 19th June, 15h00-17h00, at the University de La Réunion.
Laëtitia Saint-Loubert (Université de La Réunion) : « Traduction et kala pani : passages obligés, passages interdits » (16:00-16:30)
Abstract:
Cette communication s’attachera principalement aux travaux d’Ananda Devi en tant qu’écrivain-traductrice. Elle portera essentiellement sur sa traduction en français du roman de David Dabydeen The Counting House (1996) et sur son auto-traduction de Pagli (2001) vers l’anglais. Le caractère défectif associé à la condition ancillaire du traducteur, et, bien souvent, de la traductrice, sera mis en parallèle avec la traversée des eaux impures du kala pani afin de montrer en quoi les pratiques (auto)traduisantes d’Ananda Devi s’inscrivent dans la transgression créatrice et offrent une véritable poétique relationnelle de la traduction. Cet art du passage observé chez Ananda Devi consistera à rétablir des liens transocéaniques par-delà des codes convenus, guidés par le motif de la trace et rappelant les « arcs-en-mer » d’Edouard Glissant.
Source: http://www.univ-reunion.fr/fileadmin/Fichiers/communication/3_Newsletter-evenementielles/2018_06_04/KALA_PNAI_programme-seminaire-dire-19-06-2018.pdf
Laëtitia Saint-Loubert (Université de La Réunion) : « Traduction et kala pani : passages obligés, passages interdits » (16:00-16:30)
Abstract:
Cette communication s’attachera principalement aux travaux d’Ananda Devi en tant qu’écrivain-traductrice. Elle portera essentiellement sur sa traduction en français du roman de David Dabydeen The Counting House (1996) et sur son auto-traduction de Pagli (2001) vers l’anglais. Le caractère défectif associé à la condition ancillaire du traducteur, et, bien souvent, de la traductrice, sera mis en parallèle avec la traversée des eaux impures du kala pani afin de montrer en quoi les pratiques (auto)traduisantes d’Ananda Devi s’inscrivent dans la transgression créatrice et offrent une véritable poétique relationnelle de la traduction. Cet art du passage observé chez Ananda Devi consistera à rétablir des liens transocéaniques par-delà des codes convenus, guidés par le motif de la trace et rappelant les « arcs-en-mer » d’Edouard Glissant.
Source: http://www.univ-reunion.fr/fileadmin/Fichiers/communication/3_Newsletter-evenementielles/2018_06_04/KALA_PNAI_programme-seminaire-dire-19-06-2018.pdf
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Conference "Corresponding with Beckett The Epistolary in Literary Research"
Self-translation was the topic of one talk given at the conference "Corresponding with Beckett. The Epistolary in Literary Research" which took place in London, 1-2 June 2018.
Ioanna Kostopoulou (Humboldt University of Berlin) “Translation, Self-Translation and Emerging Poetics: Samuel Beckett’s Correspondence in French (1941-56)”
Abstract: In the immediate post-war years, Beckett’s writing is shaped by his use of French. What is known as the chosen language for his literary work is also unsurprisingly the language of the majority of his correspondence in the period 1941-56. This particular proficiency in French can be seen as a result of increasing confidence and everyday contact with “standard” French; it relies also on a deeper connection with other (French-speaking) writers and thinkers, made possible by epistolary-based friendship and trust. On the other hand, moments of “invented” French and the development of different epistolary styles hint at a process of translation, self-translation and the emerging of poetics in the letters and literary works—such as the “Trilogy”—alike. Bearing Beckett’s words to Simone de Beauvoir in mind—“You are giving me the chance to speak only to retract it before the words have had time to mean anything” (25 September 1946; LSB 2, 42)—the letters seem to reveal poetological decisions on when to start or end a text as well as conditions for speech and its (im)possibilities of meaning production. The correspondence with art critic Georges Duthuit reveals Beckett’s thoughts on translation and documents the struggle with the “burden”, but also the necessity of selftranslation into English. At the same time, Beckett’s encounter with Henri Michaux’s prose poetry raises the question of translation as influence, corresponding in a metaphorical sense and Übertragung crucial for Beckett’s (literary) writing in the years after Transition, Forty-Eight, No. 4. This paper aims to locate, in the exchange of concepts, (un)words and views on art, a possible correspondence with Beckett’s translation practice of around 1948 and the conditions under which notions of speech, language and silence flow into novels such as L’Innommable, or in Textes pour rien.
Source: https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/corresponding-beckett
Ioanna Kostopoulou (Humboldt University of Berlin) “Translation, Self-Translation and Emerging Poetics: Samuel Beckett’s Correspondence in French (1941-56)”
Abstract: In the immediate post-war years, Beckett’s writing is shaped by his use of French. What is known as the chosen language for his literary work is also unsurprisingly the language of the majority of his correspondence in the period 1941-56. This particular proficiency in French can be seen as a result of increasing confidence and everyday contact with “standard” French; it relies also on a deeper connection with other (French-speaking) writers and thinkers, made possible by epistolary-based friendship and trust. On the other hand, moments of “invented” French and the development of different epistolary styles hint at a process of translation, self-translation and the emerging of poetics in the letters and literary works—such as the “Trilogy”—alike. Bearing Beckett’s words to Simone de Beauvoir in mind—“You are giving me the chance to speak only to retract it before the words have had time to mean anything” (25 September 1946; LSB 2, 42)—the letters seem to reveal poetological decisions on when to start or end a text as well as conditions for speech and its (im)possibilities of meaning production. The correspondence with art critic Georges Duthuit reveals Beckett’s thoughts on translation and documents the struggle with the “burden”, but also the necessity of selftranslation into English. At the same time, Beckett’s encounter with Henri Michaux’s prose poetry raises the question of translation as influence, corresponding in a metaphorical sense and Übertragung crucial for Beckett’s (literary) writing in the years after Transition, Forty-Eight, No. 4. This paper aims to locate, in the exchange of concepts, (un)words and views on art, a possible correspondence with Beckett’s translation practice of around 1948 and the conditions under which notions of speech, language and silence flow into novels such as L’Innommable, or in Textes pour rien.
Source: https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/corresponding-beckett
Friday, June 1, 2018
Conference "Translating Cultures" Wolfenbüttel, 26-27 June 2018
Self-translation is a topic of one of the talks presented at the conference Translating Cultures. Translation, Transmission and dissemination of printed texts in Europe 1640-1795, taking place from 26-27 June 2018 in Wolfenbüttel in Germany.
- Luc Borot (Montpellier): ‘Translation and self-translation in the 17th century: the case of Thomas Hobbes.’
To see the complete conference program, please click here.
Information retrieved from: http://www.hab.de/files/programm180516.pdf
Information retrieved from: http://www.hab.de/files/programm180516.pdf
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Conference: Drama Across Borders: The Politics & Poetics of Contemporary Theatre in Translation
Self-translation was a topic of one talk at the conference "Drama Across Borders: The Politics & Poetics of Contemporary Theatre in Translation" which took place at Cornell University and The Cherry Artspace, May 11–12, 2018.
- Burcu Seyben (Bennington College): “The Personal, Political and Linguistic: The Dynamics of Self-translation,” with a reading from Beauty Spot, written and performed by Burcu Seyben
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