Cultural Translation and the Rediscovery of Identity: Case Study from the Armenian Diaspora
Journal: ARCA (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Year: 2020

This paper aims to underline how hidden selves rediscover their identity when they are translating or are being translated into the language of their ethnic origin.It compares two specific instances in which translations have been the primary means through which two famous Italian women writers, both of whom received thoroughly Italian formal educations and considered themselves thoroughly Italian, or "thoroughly translated women into Italian" to recall Rushdie, rediscovered their Armenian ident