Multilingualism and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures / Mitmekeelsus ja tõlge postkoloniaalsetes kirjandustes

• Main Author: Bertacco, Simona
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Estonian Literary Museum 2023
• Subjects: Postcolonial literatures; multilingualism; translation; heterolingual texts; translational readings; Caribbean Creoles; Garry Thomas Morse; Velma Pollard; postkoloniaalsed kirjandused; mitmekeelsus; tõlge; erikeelsed tekstid; tõlkelised lugemised; Kariibi kreoolkeeled; Garry; Morse; Pollard; Selle; Velma; First Nations; morse
• Online Access: https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/methis/article/view/23316; https://doi.org/10.7592/methis.v25i31-32.23316

Abstract: Postcolonial literatures are literatures that have a mobile base and that travel through different geographies. Their transcultural and transnational status is often accompanied by a multilingual textuality that recalls in many ways the functioning of translation as it enables a reading experience beyond national and monocultural notions of language, literature, and community. Approaching literary studies from a postcolonial and decolonial perspective, this essay deals with the potential that heterolingual and translational texts have to multilingualise their readers. In this essay, the fields of postcolonial literary studies and of translation studies come together to craft a translational model of reading for heterolingual texts. Two different multilingual contexts are examined: North American Indigenous communities and their cultures of translation, and the Caribbean and its creolised multilingualism. The textual analysis focuses respectively on a poem by First Nations writer Garry Thomas Morse that illustrates the profound bond between translation and writing in Indigenous language contexts, and two poems by Velma Pollard, a Jamaican writer belonging to the first generation of anglophone Caribbean writers who will allow us a deeper view of Caribbean forms of multilingualism. Mitmekeelsus ja tõlge postkoloniaalsetes kirjandustes Postkoloniaalsed kirjandused on kirjandused, mis reisivad läbi eri aegruumide. Nende kultuuri- ja rahvusülese staatusega kaasneb sageli mitmekeelne tekstuaalsus, mis mitmeti meenutab tõlke toimimist, sest võimaldab lugemiskogemust, mis ületab rahvuslikke ning monokultuurseid arusaamu keelest, kirjandusest ja kogukonnast. Postkoloniaalsetes kontekstides tuleks mitmekeelsust ja tõlget pidada pigem teineteist täiendavateks kui teineteisele vastanduvateks nähtusteks. Tegelikult on postkoloniaalne kirjandus peamine nüüdiskirjanduse korpus, mis nõuab keeleülest lähenemist, sest selle kirjanduse keelelist maatriksit pole võimalik kätkeda endiste koloniaalkeelte piiridesse, vaid see ...