The translating subject /
"The Translating Subject focuses on a recent shift in women's writing toward multilingual poetics and considers the potential for multilingual experimental texts to set up innovative terms of engagement that are queer, feminist, transnational, and decolonizing. My analysis moves beyond the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2025]
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| Summary: | "The Translating Subject focuses on a recent shift in women's writing toward multilingual poetics and considers the potential for multilingual experimental texts to set up innovative terms of engagement that are queer, feminist, transnational, and decolonizing. My analysis moves beyond the traditional approach to multilingual writing as a postcolonial strategy used by bilingual writers and those expressing bicultural identities to consider multilingual writing as a mode of queer feminist epistemology and a site for transnational feminist solidarity. I provide close readings of the late works of Erín Moure, Nicole Brossard, and Kathy Acker, whose later work tends to be overdetermined by the early radical writing that established their renown. I bring together, for the first time, theories of the avant-garde with theories of translation, both of which have been preoccupied with the ideological structure of language, the former since early-twentieth-century Modernism and the latter since the linguistic turn in the 1980s. Adopting the tenets of gynocriticism and queer criticism, my book is as much concerned with the bodies that produced this writing as with theories of writing, so I undertook intensive archival research to understand why this work was produced by these bodies at these times. Diary entries, manuscript notes, and biographical details are threaded through my textual analysis to provide a picture of women writing through mourning, identity crisis, and postcolonial struggle. My aim is to show the radical potential of multilingual writing to challenge monolingual norms and to provide sensitive new readings of Moure, Acker, and Brossard that reinforce their status as major writers of our time."-- |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 218 pages ; 23 cm Issued also in electronic format. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780228023968 0228023963 9780228023975 0228023971 |