Radical Others in the New “Contact Zone”: Tensions, Breaks, Relations (EN)

Marchi, Lisa

Drawing from recent conceptualizations of translation as an open, fragmentary, and unpredictable process (Simon, 2006; Bassnett, 1998), in this article, I employ creolization as a theoretical paradigm of transnational significance to explore the ways in which Other cultures translate cultures, by paying particular attention to the breaks, tensions, and relations that these translations both reveal and produce. The essay examines and compares three creolized ‘texts’: the cycle of paintings “Changing Perceptions” (2005) by Arab-American visual artist Helen Zughaib; the collection breaking poems (2008) by Arab-American poet Suheir Hammad; and the libretto Imoinda or She Who Will Lose her Name (2008) by African-Caribbean-British writer Joan Anim-Addo. The main goal of the paper is to test the potential of creolization as a transnational poetics and practice and a theoretical tool to read and critically interrogate the creolized texts produced by today’s “signifying minorities” (Anim-Addo, 2009) within the British and US nations, and by extension within an increasingly interconnected, heterogeneous, and “uneven” (Radhakrishnan, 2003) world. (EN)

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Peer-reviewed Article (EN)

Helen Zughaib (EN)

transnationalism (EN)

Suheir Hammad (EN)

translation (EN)

Joan Anim-Addo (EN)

creolization (EN)

postcolonialism (EN)

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Department of English Language and Literature

Synthesis

Articles

Synthesis

Αγγλική γλώσσα

2015-05-01

https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/synthesis/article/view/16195

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EN)

1791-5155

Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies; No. 7 (2015): Perspectives from the Radical Other; 23-41 (EN)

Copyright (c) 2015 Lisa Marchi (EN)

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