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Chapter 11. The tidalectics of translation

On the necessity of rethinking translation flows from the Caribbean
  • Laëtitia Saint-Loubert
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Translation Flows
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Abstract

This chapter aims to contribute to debates on non-market-centric, more equitable, sustainable routes of transnational literary circulation, particularly for those literatures originally produced, translated, disseminated and distributed in fragilized ecosystems. To this end, it proposes an epistemological move away from traditional core-periphery, Global North-Global South paradigms. Rather than adopting a market-oriented approach, it aims to rethink Translation Studies from the perspective of the complex, varied and fragile ecosystems of the Caribbean. In relation to flows from and beyond the Caribbean, it will concentrate on Kamau Brathwaite’s ‘tidalectics’ (or ‘tidal dialectic[s]’) to envisage more sustainable flows of transnational literary circulation and rethink acts and processes of translation within their ‘natural’, vulnerable contexts of emergence (Brathwaite, 1983).

Abstract

This chapter aims to contribute to debates on non-market-centric, more equitable, sustainable routes of transnational literary circulation, particularly for those literatures originally produced, translated, disseminated and distributed in fragilized ecosystems. To this end, it proposes an epistemological move away from traditional core-periphery, Global North-Global South paradigms. Rather than adopting a market-oriented approach, it aims to rethink Translation Studies from the perspective of the complex, varied and fragile ecosystems of the Caribbean. In relation to flows from and beyond the Caribbean, it will concentrate on Kamau Brathwaite’s ‘tidalectics’ (or ‘tidal dialectic[s]’) to envisage more sustainable flows of transnational literary circulation and rethink acts and processes of translation within their ‘natural’, vulnerable contexts of emergence (Brathwaite, 1983).

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword vii
  4. Part 1. Historical flows
  5. Chapter 1. A naïve inquiry into translation between Aboriginal languages in pre-Invasion Australia 3
  6. Chapter 2. The circulation of knowledge vs the mobility of translation, or how mobile are translators and translations? 23
  7. Chapter 3. A transatlantic flow of Spanish and Catalan romans-à-clef 43
  8. Chapter 4. Recognition versus redistribution? 69
  9. Chapter 5. From intersection to interculture 87
  10. Part 2. Current flows
  11. Chapter 6. Recirculated, recontextualized, reworked 107
  12. Chapter 7. Nollywood and indigenous language translation flows 129
  13. Chapter 8. Maryse Condé and the Alternative Nobel Prize of 2018 149
  14. Chapter 9. The role of literary agents in the international flow of texts 163
  15. Chapter 10. Flowing to the reception side 183
  16. Chapter 11. The tidalectics of translation 207
  17. Chapter 12. Combining translation policy and imagology 225
  18. Notes on the authors 247
  19. Index 251
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.163.11sai

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword vii
  4. Part 1. Historical flows
  5. Chapter 1. A naïve inquiry into translation between Aboriginal languages in pre-Invasion Australia 3
  6. Chapter 2. The circulation of knowledge vs the mobility of translation, or how mobile are translators and translations? 23
  7. Chapter 3. A transatlantic flow of Spanish and Catalan romans-à-clef 43
  8. Chapter 4. Recognition versus redistribution? 69
  9. Chapter 5. From intersection to interculture 87
  10. Part 2. Current flows
  11. Chapter 6. Recirculated, recontextualized, reworked 107
  12. Chapter 7. Nollywood and indigenous language translation flows 129
  13. Chapter 8. Maryse Condé and the Alternative Nobel Prize of 2018 149
  14. Chapter 9. The role of literary agents in the international flow of texts 163
  15. Chapter 10. Flowing to the reception side 183
  16. Chapter 11. The tidalectics of translation 207
  17. Chapter 12. Combining translation policy and imagology 225
  18. Notes on the authors 247
  19. Index 251
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