Résumés
Abstract
In this paper I would like to explore the work of five bilingual writers focusing on the different narratives they develop in their use of (self-)translation as a textual strategy to fashion a sexual persona. Julia(e)n Green’s Le langage et son double/The Language and its Shadow and Louis Wolfson’s Le Schizo et les langues create narratives of severance and disjointing. The self-translational activity is used here to create perfectly separated spheres of (sexual) identity. Raymond Federman’s A Voice within a Voice and Christine Brooke-Rose’s Between, on the other hand, develop narratives of merging and mixing. The self-translating activity is viewed as a constant shifting and moving of sexual roles taking place in a sphere outside the conscious control of the writer. The final part of the paper will be dedicated to a discussion of Abdelkebir Khatibi’s Amour bilingue that fictionalizes the functioning of bilingualism and self-translation in terms of sexual roles, introducing, this way, a post-colonial dimension missing in the other texts.
Keywords:
- bilingualism,
- self-translation,
- sexual identity,
- post-colonial theory,
- body and language
Résumé
Dans ce texte j’aimerais explorer l’oeuvre de cinq écrivains bilingues, en me concentrant sur les différents récits qu’ils produisent en utilisant l’(auto)-traduction comme stratégie textuelle pour créer une identité sexuelle. Julia(e)n Green (Le langage et son double/The Language and its Shadow) et Louis Wolfson (Le Schizo et les langues) élaborent des récits de séparation et de disjonction. L’auto-traduction est utilisée ici pour générer des sphères sexuelles tout à fait séparées. Raymond Federman (A Voice within a Voice) et Christine Brooke-Rose (Between) par contre développent des récits de fusion et de mélange. On considère que l’auto-traduction, lorsqu’elle entraîne des changements et des revirements au sein des rôles sexuels, évolue dans un espace qui relève de l’inconscient de l’auteur. La partie finale de la présentation est consacrée à la discussion de Abdelkebir Khatibi (Amour bilingue) qui parle du bilinguisme et de l’auto-traduction en termes de rôles sexuels, ajoutant, ainsi, une dimension post-coloniale qui est absente dans les autres textes.
Mots-clés:
- bilinguisme,
- auto-traduction,
- identité sexuelle,
- théorie post-coloniale,
- corps et langage
Parties annexes
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