Hybridising English, hybridising French: Robert Dickson’s translation of Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen
International audience Kiss of the Fur Queen was first published by Doubleday in 1998. In what remains Tomson Highway’s only novel to this day, the Cree Canadian writer gives a partly autobiographical, partly fictitious account of the early life of his brother, René and himself through the story of...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-02420543v1 2024-02-11T10:03:53+01:00 Hybridising English, hybridising French: Robert Dickson’s translation of Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen Miroux, Franck Cultures anglo-saxonnes (CAS) Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT) Routledge Karen Bennett 2019 https://hal.science/hal-02420543 en eng HAL CCSD Routledge ISBN: 9781138307407 hal-02420543 https://hal.science/hal-02420543 Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation: Identity, Mobility and Language Change https://hal.science/hal-02420543 Routledge. Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation: Identity, Mobility and Language Change, Routledge, pp.128-150, 2019, 9781138307407 Tomson Highway translation Canadian First Nations literatures Robert Dickson hybrid Englishes [SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart Book sections 2019 ftccsdartic 2024-01-14T00:58:33Z International audience Kiss of the Fur Queen was first published by Doubleday in 1998. In what remains Tomson Highway’s only novel to this day, the Cree Canadian writer gives a partly autobiographical, partly fictitious account of the early life of his brother, René and himself through the story of their fictional counterparts—Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis.Like Tomson and René, the two fictional brothers were born in the early 1950s in a family of nomadic caribou hunters in Northern Manitoba. At the age of five, they were removed from their family and sent to a Catholic residential school hundreds of miles away from their native community. There, their names were changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel. They were forced to learn English and forbidden to speak Cree. They were also repeatedly raped by the school’s headmaster, Father Roland Lafleur.The years spent at Birch Lake residential school, however, also prove beneficial to the two boys. Champion eventually becomes a concert pianist and a playwright, as Tomson Highway did in real life, while Ooneemeetoo pursues a career in ballet dancing, as did René. Nevertheless, the scars left by the many abuses suffered at the hands of the oblate Fathers remain, and Ooneemeeto and René share the same tragic fate, slipping into male prostitution first, and dying prematurely of AIDS in the early 1990s.The only attempt at translating Kiss of the Fur Queen dates back to 2004, when the famous Franco-Ontarian poet Robert Dickson published a version in French entitled Champion et Ooneemeetoo at Prise de parole, an Ontarian publishing house. The aim of this chapter is to explore the problems raised by the translation of a text which offers various layers of cultural encryption. To begin with, I shall focus on the difficulty of reading, interpreting and translating a linguistically hybrid and composite text by an author who is plurilingual, but whose mother tongue is not English. Then, I will address issues inherent in the translation of a text whose main concern is to reconcile ... Book Part First Nations Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Roland ENVELOPE(-64.050,-64.050,-65.067,-65.067) |
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International audience Kiss of the Fur Queen was first published by Doubleday in 1998. In what remains Tomson Highway’s only novel to this day, the Cree Canadian writer gives a partly autobiographical, partly fictitious account of the early life of his brother, René and himself through the story of their fictional counterparts—Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis.Like Tomson and René, the two fictional brothers were born in the early 1950s in a family of nomadic caribou hunters in Northern Manitoba. At the age of five, they were removed from their family and sent to a Catholic residential school hundreds of miles away from their native community. There, their names were changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel. They were forced to learn English and forbidden to speak Cree. They were also repeatedly raped by the school’s headmaster, Father Roland Lafleur.The years spent at Birch Lake residential school, however, also prove beneficial to the two boys. Champion eventually becomes a concert pianist and a playwright, as Tomson Highway did in real life, while Ooneemeetoo pursues a career in ballet dancing, as did René. Nevertheless, the scars left by the many abuses suffered at the hands of the oblate Fathers remain, and Ooneemeeto and René share the same tragic fate, slipping into male prostitution first, and dying prematurely of AIDS in the early 1990s.The only attempt at translating Kiss of the Fur Queen dates back to 2004, when the famous Franco-Ontarian poet Robert Dickson published a version in French entitled Champion et Ooneemeetoo at Prise de parole, an Ontarian publishing house. The aim of this chapter is to explore the problems raised by the translation of a text which offers various layers of cultural encryption. To begin with, I shall focus on the difficulty of reading, interpreting and translating a linguistically hybrid and composite text by an author who is plurilingual, but whose mother tongue is not English. Then, I will address issues inherent in the translation of a text whose main concern is to reconcile ... |
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Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation: Identity, Mobility and Language Change https://hal.science/hal-02420543 Routledge. Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation: Identity, Mobility and Language Change, Routledge, pp.128-150, 2019, 9781138307407 |
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