Fiche du document
2 juillet 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.12465
- isbn: 9782367812410
- eisbn: 9782367814001
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Mots-clés
traduction Méditerranée Afrique Atlantique Océanie postcolonial océan indien multilingue translation Mediterranean Africa Atlantic Atlantic Ocean Oceania postcolonial Indian Ocean multilingual LAN009000 Linguistics CFSujets proches
Frenchmen (French people)Citer ce document
Jean Anderson, « A Kumara by Any Other Name: Literary Translation in and of the Polynesian Pacific », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.12465
Métriques
Partage / Export
Résumé
Looking at examples from works by indigenous writers from the Polynesian triangle (New Zealand and French Polynesia), this article examines the complexities of literary translation from English to French (Patricia Grace) and from French to English (Chantal Spitz) for an extremely diverse readership (not merely Pacific-based but European and American as well). Examining a number of concepts from Paul Bandia’s recommendations concerning postcolonial African fiction and its heteroglossic practices, the author suggests that there are other questions we should be asking, in addition to whether to smoothe the heteroglossic into homogenised translations. How does the translator make decisions? Who will be reading these translations? How might the translations contribute towards forming—and informing—a ‘community of readers’, with shared cultural awareness? While this knowledge is to some extent already available to certain Pacific readers, and while the translator has a number of strategies at his or her disposal to provide greater clarity, it is likely that anyone outside the region will benefit from added information.