Feminist and Postcolonial Practices in the Collaborative Translation of Caribbean Women Poets from the English and Spanish-speaking Insular Caribbean
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut.v13n2a11Keywords:
poetry translation, feminist translation, Caribbean Literature, women poets, poetry anthology, Caribbean Creole languagesAbstract
This article argues that the translation of texts written by women in the Anglophone and Spanish-speaking Caribbean literary field has the potential of being transformative when carried out from the perspective of postcolonial translation and feminist translation. The social and ethical responsibility of resisting homogenizing translation strategies that erase linguistic and cultural differences, and thus produce stereotyped and neocolonial constructions of the archipelago present in normative translation is foregrounded. The article revolves around how this translation perspective is displayed in our translation of the bilingual anthology of contemporary Caribbean women poets The Sea Needs No Ornament / El mar no necesita ornamento (2020). As editors and translators, we seek to contribute to favouring and boosting the dialogue —within and beyond the archipelagic region— between women writers and their readers, who are separated by geography and language barriers but often impacted by shared global histories and the urgencies of the contemporary moment. To illustrate our perspective, the article focuses on three aspects which prove revealing of our collaborative translation practise: translating the linguistic gender, translating Creole and translating vocabulary.
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