Consecration and accumulation of literary capital: translation as unequal exchange

Casanova, Pascale; Brownlie, Siobhan

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“…As we have seen, despite the unequal power relations between languages in the global scene (Casanova, 2009;Grutman, 2015), a perceived minority language can-through a subversive creative or translational act-be majorized, thus disrupting the binary ideological frame work of what is minor and what is major, what is dominant and what is subaltern, what is relevant and what is irrelevant. There are sev eral reasons that lead an author to majorize a language and several ways to do it, whether consciously or subconsciously, defiantly or placidly.…”

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“…However, if we look at the complex web of power dy namics at play in the "global galaxy" of languages (De Swaan, 1993 and in the "World Republic of Letters" (Casanova, 2004), we are confronted with a range of asymme tric relations that further complicates the per ception of what is minor and major, central and peripheral, domi nant and subordinate, canonized and non-canonized. Drawing upon Abram De Swaan's (1993) model of the "galaxy of languages," Pascale Casanova (2004Casanova ( , 2009 attaches different levels of symbolic capi tal to each and every literary national system. National literatures compete for dominance in the global ecumene of letters, instituting a system of centre and periphery.…”

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Breaking the Linguistic Minority Complex through Creative Writing and Self-Translation

Dagnino

2020

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Generally speaking, a minority language is "one spoken by less than 50 per cent of a population in a given region, state or country" (Grenoble and Singerman, 2017, n.p.). In this article, I propose a more con tex tualized defi nition that applies to the realm of lit erary writing and (self-)translation. Thus, I define a minority language as any language which a bi lingual or plurilingual writer perceives as not being the dominant one in the sociocultural and linguistic context in which s/he is active as an author or as a (self-)translator. Assuming this alternative definition as a point of depar ture, I discuss the creative and selftranslational practice of the Canadian writer Antonio D'Alfonso. D'Alfonso is one of those rare pluri lingual writers who feel linguis ti cally defamiliarized, claiming that instead of having a proper mother tongue he has a mixed baggage of native Molisano dialect, French, English and Italian. Thus, he tends to write, think and (self-)translate immersed in a kind of 3D-(or even 4D-) linguistic landscape (Pivato, 2002). D'Alfonso's self-translations from French into English and/or vice ver sa are testimony to the author's experimental way of challenging the "crude sub ju gation" (Whyte, 2002, p. 69) of a language over another and of over coming any minority-language complex he might have developed on his path to becoming a lin guis tically uprooted writer.

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Breaking the Linguistic Minority Complex through Creative Writing and Self-Translation

Dagnino

2020

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“…( 5) I focus on the nodes and their position in the network and in the cultural field. The latter positions are analyzed following Casanova (2010).…”

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From Nuoro to Nobel: the impact of multiple mediatorship on Grazia Deledda’s movement within the literary semi-periphery

Schwartz¹

2020

Topics and Concepts in Literary Translation

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This study aims to highlight the impact of multiple mediatorship on transnational circulation by focusing on the Italian Nobel Laureate Grazia Deledda. Drawing on two previous studies, I argue that a combination of field theory and social network analysis is a fruitful way of understanding how multiple mediatorship is performed in the semi-peripheral areas of world literature. The analysis shows that Deledda's success in Sweden depended neither on the translation of her work into central languages (English, French, German) nor on the support of single influential mediators in the target culture, but rather on the efforts of three interconnected networks of cultural mediators linking Sweden and Italy. These networks are identified, described and analyzed in order to obtain a better understanding of the features that are crucial to creating successful connections in the literary semi-periphery.

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“…Major languages like English and French have accumulated such capital as to make their cultural forms and practices objects of imitation and translation by minor languages, which have in turn sought to be translated into the major languages to share their capital and gain recognition. 14 The hierarchies create an imbalance in translation patterns. Major languages tend to be the most translated while translating less than their minor counterparts; major languages tend to translate more frequently among themselves, consolidating their prestige and resources while neglecting languages that possess different degrees of minority.…”

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Theses on Translation: An Organon for the Current Moment

Venuti

2021

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The theses offer a general theory of translation that encompasses the relation between theoryand practice and the different models of translation that generate theoretical concepts likeequivalence and ethics. The instrumental model that understands translation as a reproduction or transfer of a source-text invariant is critiqued, whereas a hermeneutic model that understands translation as an interpretation that varies the source text is advanced. Verbal choices are treated as interpretive moves that vary a range of textual features according to factors that are drawn decisively from the receiving culture where they are arranged in hierarchies of value. The interpretive act performed by translation is informed by global cultural hierarchies in which value is distributed unevenly across major and minor languages, redefining the ethical and political stakes of a translation project.

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Consecration and accumulation of literary capital: translation as unequal exchange

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Breaking the Linguistic Minority Complex through Creative Writing and Self-Translation

Breaking the Linguistic Minority Complex through Creative Writing and Self-Translation

From Nuoro to Nobel: the impact of multiple mediatorship on Grazia Deledda’s movement within the literary semi-periphery

Theses on Translation: An Organon for the Current Moment

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