In recent years, the theme of bodily fragmentation has received much attention in academic studies in Europe. The body and its parts have come to be viewed as text, trope, or metaphor, allowing one to think of the social systems. Based on contemporary reflections dealing with the body as text or discourse, including Mikhail Bakhtin, Stefanie Wenner, and Jacques Lacan, the current article revisits Empedocles and Plutarch to discuss particularly the anthropological and philosophical aspects of the concepts that have been constructed concerning the body.
In this paper I would like to explore the work of five bilingual writers focusing on the different narratives they develop in their use of (self-)translation as a textual strategy to fashion a sexual persona. Julia(e)n Green’s Le langage et son double/The Language and its Shadow and Louis Wolfson’s Le Schizo et les langues create narratives of severance and disjointing. The self-translational activity is used here to create perfectly separated spheres of (sexual) identity. Raymond Federman’s A Voice within a Voice and Christine Brooke-Rose’s Between, on the other hand, develop narratives of merging and mixing. The self-translating activity is viewed as a constant shifting and moving of sexual roles taking place in a sphere outside the conscious control of the writer. The final part of the paper will be dedicated to a discussion of Abdelkebir Khatibi’s Amour bilingue that fictionalizes the functioning of bilingualism and self-translation in terms of sexual roles, introducing, this way, a post-colonial dimension missing in the other texts.Dans ce texte j’aimerais explorer l’oeuvre de cinq écrivains bilingues, en me concentrant sur les différents récits qu’ils produisent en utilisant l’(auto)-traduction comme stratégie textuelle pour créer une identité sexuelle. Julia(e)n Green (Le langage et son double/The Language and its Shadow) et Louis Wolfson (Le Schizo et les langues) élaborent des récits de séparation et de disjonction. L’auto-traduction est utilisée ici pour générer des sphères sexuelles tout à fait séparées. Raymond Federman (A Voice within a Voice) et Christine Brooke-Rose (Between) par contre développent des récits de fusion et de mélange. On considère que l’auto-traduction, lorsqu’elle entraîne des changements et des revirements au sein des rôles sexuels, évolue dans un espace qui relève de l’inconscient de l’auteur. La partie finale de la présentation est consacrée à la discussion de Abdelkebir Khatibi (Amour bilingue) qui parle du bilinguisme et de l’auto-traduction en termes de rôles sexuels, ajoutant, ainsi, une dimension post-coloniale qui est absente dans les autres textes
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