Transplanted Subjects: Self-Translation Processes in Translingual Narratives
Keywords:
self-Translation, culture, religion, translingual narrativesAbstract
Translingual texts offer a comparative perspective, through which a dialogic process is established between the culture of origin and the host culture. They do so by addressing various frames of reference (religion, food, landscape, traditions, etc.) and by highlighting common and differing aspects in the two cultures. In this way, readers are not only made familiar with cultures often remote to them, but they are also offered a view from the outside of their own culture and society, so that they can look at it from a different – and critical – angle.
Soggetti trapiantati: processi di autotraduzione nelle narrazioni translinguistiche
I testi translinguistici offrono una prospettiva comparativa, attraverso la quale si instaura un processo dialogico tra la cultura di origine e la cultura ospitante. Ciò avviene affrontando diversi parametri di riferimento (religione, cibo, paesaggio, tradizioni, ecc.) ed evidenziando aspetti comuni e differenti nelle due culture. In questo modo, i lettori non solo entrano in familiarità con culture spesso lontane, ma viene loro offerta una visione dall’esterno della propria cultura e società, in modo che possano osservarla da un diverso – e critico – punto di vista.
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