Publication
Title
La traduction dans 'L'amour, la fantasia' d'Assia Djebar : une tunique de Nessus
Author
Abstract
One of the interesting features of Lamour, la fantasia by Assia Djebar is that it tries to combine historiography and autobiography by confronting both genres with the stories of Algerian women. More concretely, the author joins different textual sources in one multilingual palimpsest: the written text is based on oral texts and the French is based on Arabic, but also on English, Spanish, Turkish and German. The interrelations between the different com¬ponents constitute as many translational stages, in a literal and in a figura¬tive sense, at the heart of Djebars historiographical and autobiographical project. However, the explicit references the narrator makes to the communication problems between the French and the Algerians, draw our attention to the difficulty and pain involved in such an enterprise. Lamour, la fantasia is a novel based on the intertwining of sources of a different nature and from different languages, but all attempts at communication between the different cultures break down, and all the interpreters or translators efforts are doomed to fail.
Language
French
Source (journal)
Linguistica Antverpiensia / Hogeschool Antwerpen. Hoger Instituut voor Vertalers en Tolken; Rijksuniversitair Centrum Antwerpen. Hoger Instituut voor Vertalers en Tolken. - Wetteren, 1967 - 2012
Source (book)
Translation as creation : the postcolonial influence. - Antwerpen, 2003
Source (series)
Linguistica Antverpiensia / Hogeschool Antwerpen. Hoger Instituut voor Vertalers en Tolken; Rijksuniversitair Centrum Antwerpen. Hoger Instituut voor Vertalers en Tolken. - Wetteren, 1967 - 2012; 2003: 2
Publication
Antwerpen : Hogeschool Antwerpen, Hoger Instituut voor Vertalers en Tolken , 2003
ISSN
0304-2294
Volume/pages
(2003) , p. 91-104
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Last edited 22.08.2023
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