31.1293, Books: The Politics of Translating Sound Motifs in African Fiction: Jay-Rayon Ibrahim Aibo

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Subject: 31.1293, Books: The Politics of Translating Sound Motifs in African Fiction: Jay-Rayon Ibrahim Aibo

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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 21:52:21
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Politics of Translating Sound Motifs in African Fiction: Jay-Rayon Ibrahim Aibo

 


Title: The Politics of Translating Sound Motifs in African Fiction 
Series Title: Benjamins Translation Library 150  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/btl.150 


Author: Laurence Jay-Rayon Ibrahim Aibo

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261625 Pages: 170 Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261625 Pages: 170 Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261625 Pages: 170 Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204875 Pages: 170 Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204875 Pages: 170 Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204875 Pages: 170 Price: Europe EURO 95.40


Abstract:

Starting with the premise that aesthetic choices reveal the ideological
stances of translators, the author of this research monograph examines works
of fiction by postcolonial African authors writing in English or French, the
genesis and reception of their works, and the translation of each one into
French or English. Texts include those by Nuruddin Farah from Somalia,
Abdourahman Ali Waberi from Djibouti, Jean-Marie Adiaffi from Côte d’Ivoire,
Ayi Kwei Armah from Ghana, Chenjerai Hove from Zimbabwe, and Assia Djebar from
Algeria, and their translations by Jacqueline Bardolph, Jeanne Garane,
Brigitte Katiyo, Jean-Pierre Richard, Josette and Robert Mane, and Dorothy
Blair.

The author highlights the aural poetics of these works, explores the sound
motifs underlying their literary power, and shows how each is articulated with
the writer’s literary heritage. She then embarks on a close examination of
each translator’s background, followed by a rich analysis of their treatments
of sound. The translators’ strategies for addressing sound motifs are
contextualized in the larger framework of postcolonial literatures and
changing reading materialities.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature
                     Translation


Written In: English  (eng)

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