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Translating the female self across cultures : mothers and daughters in three autobiographical narratives
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Maestri, Eliana (2018) Translating the female self across cultures : mothers and daughters in three autobiographical narratives. Benjamins Translation Library (130). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 9789027258762
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.130
Abstract
Translating the Female Self across Cultures 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. The book highlights the fruitfulness of studying women’s narratives and their translations, and the polyphonic dialogue between the translations and the literary and theoretical productions of the French and Italian cultures.
Item Type: | Book | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures | ||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Series Name: | Benjamins Translation Library | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Benjamins Translation Library | ||||||
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Amsterdam | ||||||
ISBN: | 9789027258762 | ||||||
ISSN: | 0929-7316 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2018 | ||||||
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Number: | 130 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 283 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1075/btl.130 | ||||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
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