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Language Smugglers - Postlingual Literatures and Translation within the Canadian Context (Hardcover)
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Language Smugglers - Postlingual Literatures and Translation within the Canadian Context (Hardcover)
Series: Literatures, Cultures, Translation
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Translation is commonly understood as the rendering of a text from
one language to another – a border-crossing activity, where the
border is a linguistic one. But what if the text one is translating
is not written in “one language;” indeed, what if no text is
ever written in a single language? In recent years, many books of
fiction and poetry published in so-called Canada, especially by
queer, racialized and Indigenous writers, have challenged the
structural notions of linguistic autonomy and singularity that
underlie not only the formation of the nation-state, but the bulk
of Western translation theory and the field of comparative
literature. Language Smugglers argues that the postnational
cartographies of language found in minoritized Canadian literary
works force a radical redefinition of the activity of translation
altogether. Canada is revealed as an especially rich site for this
study, with its official bilingualism and multiculturalism
policies, its robust translation industry and practitioners, and
the strong challenges to its national narratives and accompanying
language politics presented by Indigenous people, the province of
Québec, and high levels of immigration.
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