Translating the female self across cultures
Subtitle: mothers and daughters in autobiographical narratives
By: Eliana Maestri
Series: Benjamins translation library (BTL) -- volume 130; Benjamins translation library -- v. 130.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9789027258762; 9789027266064
Subjects: Translating and interpreting; Cross-cultural studies; Women biographers; Narration (Rhetoric); Philosophy; Narrative Discourse analysis
Description: This book examines contemporary autobiographical narratives and their Italian and French translations. The comparative analyses of the texts are underpinned by the latest developments in translation studies that place emphasis on identity construction in translation and the role of translation in moulding various types of identity. They focus on how the writers' textual personae make sense of their sexual, artistic and postcolonial identities in relation to the mother and how the mother-daughter relationship survives translation into the Italian and French social, political and cultural contexts. The book shows how each target text activates different cultural literary, linguistic and rhetorical frames of reference which cast light on the facets of the protagonists' quest for identity: the cult of the Madonna, humour and irony, gender and class, mimesis and storytelling, spatial representation and geographical sense of self.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.