A Reminder that the next CCWW cross-cultural seminar will be held on
Friday 7 March 2014, 2pm, IMLR, Room G21a, Senate House, University of London
'Translating the Female Body in Contemporary Women's Writing'
Speakers:
Michela Baldo (Siena, CCWW-IMLR), ‘Painful Italianness: The Italian-Canadian and Italian-American female body translated into Italian’
Eliana Maestri (Warwick): ‘Performativity and the Body in Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiographie de ma mère [Autobiography of my mother]’
Georgina Paul (St Hilda’s, Oxford): ‘Different Frequencies: Translating Women’s Voices into writing (Cixous, Bachmann, Wolf, Köhler)’
Emily Spiers (New College, Oxford): ‘Bodies of Work: Intertextuality and Corporeality in Helene Hegemann’s Axolotl Roadkill’
Translation is an important element in the promotion of women’s writing and in bringing it to new cultural audiences. The translation of literature is also a burgeoning field of study, and many scholars are working on gender-related topics. This seminar aims to explore, in a cross-cultural and comparative forum, the translation of the female body in contemporary women’s writing. In what ways does the migration of language across cultures in translation impact on representations and narratives of women’s bodily experiences? What kinds of translations of and transitions in the female body occur between source and target languages? What specific relationships can be identified between the translation and the migration of the female body, in the case, for example, of migrant (or post-migrant) authors or narrators/protagonists? How is the hybridity of identity or language translated? And what kinds of tensions exist between the choice of language of writing and its subsequent translation in scenarios where political critique or nostalgia is concerned? Finally, how does translation intervene in the case of marginalised women, where writing about bodily experiences may have a therapeutic or transformative impetus or effect? Without being limited to them, these are some of the questions that the seminar aims to engage with.
Organisers: Michela Baldo (Siena/IMLR) and Gill Rye (IMLR)
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For further details, please see http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/15307/Translating+the+Female+Body+in+Contemporary+Women%27s+Writing
Professor Emerita Gill Rye,
Director, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing,
Institute of Modern Languages Research,
School of Advanced Study,
University of London,
Senate House,
Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HU,
U.K.
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