Joyful Babel

Translating Hélène Cixous
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-420-0989-9
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 223 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Reihe: Approaches to Translation Studies

Joyful Babel: Translating Hélène Cixous is a selection of critical essays on translation and the writing of Hélène Cixous, with contributions from translators of her texts into different languages and cultures. The present volume is unique in that it is the first collection of essays on the work of Cixous from the perspective of translation. It presents new explorations into translating as process, theory and practice, and new insights on Cixous’s fictional and theoretical world. It is an international collection, open to readings of Cixous’s writing, including the theoretical, fictional and dramatic discourses. The variety of intersecting subjects and perspectives provokes, interrogates and explores Cixous’s theory and writing in ways that will contribute to a deeper understanding of her oeuvre, will motivate new debates as well as inspire new research.
This book is addressed to a wide range of readers, from those who initiate themselves to translation or already practise it, to readers and critics of Cixous’s work, linguists and translation theorists, scholars interested in gender and postcolonial issues, and critics of contemporary literature; thus, not only academics but also professional translators, as well as drama/theatre staging practitioners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Díaz Diocaretz, Myriam

Segarra, Marta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Myriam Diocaretz: Preface
Acknowledgments
Marta Segarra: Critical Introduction
PART I: Translating other Discourses
Susan SELLERS: Translating the Enigma: Hélène Cixous’s Writing Notebooks
Verena ANDERMATT CONLEY: Betrayed
Part II: Translating ‘as if Other’, or Translation in Difference
Eric PRENOWITZ: The “Equivocal Vocation” of Translation
Monica FIORINI: La coupe des mots. Notes on the Italian Translation of OR Les lettres de mon père
Lynn K. PENROD: Translation’s Inifinite Spiral: Reading, Translating, Reading Cixous
Sissel LIE: “Without your breath on my words, there will not be any mimosa”. Reflections on Translation
Maribel PEÑALVER VICEA: The Betrayal of Textual Différence (of the Voiles): a Translational Analysis of Savoir
PART III: Translating Sexual Difference
Nadia SETTI: Transreadings
Isako MATSUMOTO: Problems in Translating Hélène Cixous into Japanese Feminine Language
PART IV: Translating Other’s Culture, or Translating Words into Bodes
Anu ANEJA: “Translating HC/Writing the self” (L’Indiade and the Replication of an Elusive Dream)
Judith G. MILLER: Translating Hélène Cixous’s Tambours sur la digue: The Ineffable on Stage
Deborah JENSON: Hélène Cixous, Translator of History and Legend: ' Ce transport vertigineux”
Liliana ALEXANDRESCU: Beyond the Text, into the Realm of Live Performance: Working on the Portrait de Dora
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

MYRIAM DIOCARETZ is Head of the Digital Culture Research Programme at the European Centre for Digital Communication/Infonomics, in Maastricht. As editor and author she has published extensively in English, French, and Spanish, on gender, critical theory, poetics, semiotics, and the new comunication technologies. Her books include Translating Poetic Discourse: Questions on Feminist Strategies in Adrienne Rich (1985); Hélène Cixous: Chemins d’une écriture, edited with F. van Rossum-Guyon, (PUV Saint-Denis/Rodopi, 1990); The Bakhtin Circle Today, editor (Rodopi, 1989); Breve Historia Feminista de la Literatura Española. Vol. I coedited with I. M. Zavala, (Anthropos, 1993); Discurso Erótico y Discurso Transgresor en la Cultura Peninsular, co-edited with I. M. Zavala (Tuero, 1992). She holds an M.A.in English from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. from SUNY at Stony Brook. Since 1989 she has been general editor of Critical Studies (Rodopi), and is founder and editor of Cultura y Diferencia (Anthropos, Barcelona).

MARTA SEGARRA is Director of the Centre Dona i literatura (Center of Women and literature) and Professor of French and Francophone literature and cinema at the University of Barcelona (Spain), and has been Visiting Professor at the Université of Paris 8 (in 2001 and in 2003), where she taught in the doctoral program on Études féminines directed by Hélène Cixous. She specializes in gender studies and in literature by women authors from the Maghreb. She has published on this subject the books Leur pesant de poudre: romancières francophones du Maghreb (Paris, 1997), and Mujeres magrebíes (Barcelona, 1998), and also articles on French feminism, gender theory, Beauvoir, Cixous, Duras among other authors, in academic journals and books. She has also co-edited the books, with Àngels Carabí, Mujeres y literatura (Barcelona, 1994), Feminismo y crítica literaria (1999), Nuevas masculinidades (2000), and with Guy Dugas, Femmes et guerre en Méditerranée (Montpellier, 2000). She organised a Seminar with Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous at the University of Barcelona in February 2002 (to be published in 2003). For more information: http://www.ub.edu/cdona