“Qui sont-je?” Multilingual Entanglements in Üstün Bilgen-Reinart’s Porcelain Moon and Pomegranates: A Woman’s Trek through Turkey

• Published in: TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction
• Main Author: Karpinski, Eva C.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Association canadienne de traductologie 2018
• Subjects: multilingualism; translation; Turkish-Canadian life writing; Indigeneity; transnational feminism; decolonial theories; multilinguisme; traduction; récit de vie turco-canadien; indigenéité; féminisme transnational; théorie décoloniale; Canada; Hélène; Sayisi Dene
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1065570ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1065570ar

Hélène Cixous’s question “Who are I?” sets up the scene of this inquiry into the Turkish-Canadian writer Üstün Bilgen-Reinart’s plural self-translations at the crossroads of different cultures she has traversed during her life trajectory from Turkey to Canada and back to Turkey. I read her hybrid tr...