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The Question of Authenticity in Migrant Self-Translation

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The Question of Authenticity in Migrant Self-Translation (EN)
Bohórquez, Paola
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Peer-reviewed Article (EN)
2012-05-01
Through the reading of Smaro Kamboureli’s and Ariel Dorfman’s translingual memoirs, this essay examines how the trope of authenticity figures in migrant narratives of self-formation in-between languages. With attention to the strategies of self-translation through which each text navigates the disjunction between mother tongue and foreign language, speech and writing, narrated and narrating selves, the essay argues that while both texts do away with mimetic notions of self-representation, each rearticulates the ethos of authenticity as constitutive of the process of writing the self in translation. (EN)
immigration (EN)
memoirs (EN)
translation (EN)
language (EN)
self-representation (EN)
Synthesis
English
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EN)
1791-5155
Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies; No. 4 (2012): Translation and Authenticity in a Global Setting; 50-61 (EN)
Copyright (c) 2012 Paola Bohórquez (EN)
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