UE Translation studies: Creative translation

This course is designed as a series of creative writing workshops. It offers students the opportunity to explore their languages (French, English, other), experimentally and experientially, through stage-by-stage writing « tasks » such as transcultural transposition, dialectical rewriting and reflexive self-translation. Students are invited to mix and (mis)match their languages creatively and to invent fictional or auto-fictional personas. The source texts proposed are for the most part postcolonial or multicultural British poems, staging non-standard English voices and engaging with issues of hybridity, exile, in-betweenness, identity, interculturality, nostalgia, non-transmission of language or culture, transcultural emancipation, etc. The aim of this approach is to facilitate moving between languages with fluency and to help students inhabit each language more authentically – while studying transcultural writing in contemporary anglophone poetry,

Agbabi, Patience. Transformatrix. Payback Press, 2000.

Anokhina, Olga (dir). Multilinguisme et créativité littéraire. Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia/L’Harmattan, coll. « Au cœur des textes, n° 20 », 2012.

Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths, Gareth & Tiffin, Helen. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in postcolonial literatures. London & New York: Routledge, 1989.

Bassnett, Susan & Trivedi, Haresh. Postcolonial Translation : Theory and Practise (Translation Studies). London & New York: Routledge, 1999.

Nagra, Daljit. Look We Have Coming to Dover! Faber & Faber, 2007.

Stephanides, Stephanos. Blue Moon in Rajasthan and other poems, Kochlias Publications, 2005.

Walcott, Derek. Omeros, Faber and Faber, 1990.