La imposición española: autotraducción literaria desde y hacia el español en Canadá (1971-2016)

Trish Van Bolderen

doi:10.17533/udea.mut.v15n1a08

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Trish Van Bolderen University of Ottawa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut.v15n1a08

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Self-translation, Canada, Spanish, Hispanic-Canadian literature, linguistic minorities, cultural minorities

Abstract

To date, region-based scholarship into Hispanophone literary self-translation overwhelmingly locates practices in spaces where Spanish not only has official language status but is also the dominant language. Yet, in officially bilingual (English-French) Canada, at least 25 people translated their own writing into or out of Spanish between 1971 and 2016, making these writers the single largest subset of Canada-based self-translators working with an unofficial language. But who are these authors? What might be said about their self-translations? And what does it mean to self-translate using Spanish when that language does not have official status? Adopting a product-oriented perspective, I explore these questions via three lines of enquiry: 1) time and space: when and where were these writers born? 2) frequency: how often do these authors self-translate? and 3) language: how can self-translations and self-translators be characterized in terms of language variety and combinations? Ultimately, I argue that, in the context of Canadian self-translation, the Spanish language is simultaneously imposing—pushing resolutely against paradigms of two-ness embodied by official bilingualism—and imposed upon, since it lacks official status of its own and the infrastructural robustness that accompanies it.

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Author Biography

Trish Van Bolderen, University of Ottawa

Trish Van Bolderen holds a BFA in Dance (York University) and a PhD in Translation Studies (University of Ottawa). Her primary research has focused on literary self-translation in contemporary Canada. In addition to publishing articles on this topic and on Hispanic-Canadian literature, she has co-authored “self-translation” entries in the following encyclopedic works: A Companion to Translation Studies (2014), with Rainier Grutman; Oxford Bibliographies (2018) and the Routledge Handbook of Literary Translingualism (2021), with Eva Gentes.

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