Carolyn Shread

Redefining Translation through Self-Translation: The Case of Nancy Huston

Self-translation is generally viewed as a minor, borderline, eccentric practice within translation studies. Suggesting that self-translation is in fact both more pertinent and more widespread, this article argues for a reconceptualization of translation models, using the example of Nancy Huston’s self-translating practice as a deconstructive lens. Taking selftranslation as a prototype for the ways in which translation may be viewed not as a degenerative process, but rather as creative expansion, this article sheds light on a theoretical aporia in the field of translation studies, while also forging a wider, more generous conception of the goals, art, and ethics of translation.

One Life Only: Biological Resistance, Political Resistance

That a resistance to what is known today as biopower—the control, regulation, exploitation, and instrumentalization of the living being— might emerge from possibilities written into the structure of the living being itself, not from the philosophical concepts that tower over it; that there might be a biological resistance to the biopolitical; that the biomight be viewed as a complex and contradictory authority, opposed to itself and referring to both the ideological vehicle of modern sovereignty and to that which holds it in check: this, apparently, has never been thought.

Of Images and Ills

Image–Symbol What can I say today about Invention of Hysteria, my first book, published over thirty years ago? Never have I reread it. I might even say that I have never read it. Of course, I developed, constructed, wrote, and then discussed it in detail with Jean Clay, the publishing magus of Editions Macula. Until, finally, I let the book go to its fate. I soon found its style insufferable, at once too strange and too familiar. I recognized far too quickly, far too clearly, the anxious voice of the searching young man, in search of a style, a style which sought a response—as to a psalm—to its formidable object, this feminine terrible of hysteria at the Salpetriere. Mine was a painstaking and highly dramatized search. During my research, I sometimes heard the cries of pain of the female and male patients admitted to the wings adjacent to the Bibliotheque Charcot where I was exploring the archive of all these pains past. That very place where Michel Foucault died in 1984; it is he to whom my book is indebted; and it is he who endorsed its publication in 1982. Unbearable, those shrieks heard

La traduction dans les cultures plurilingues

Notes on contributor Juan G. Ramı́rez Giraldo teaches translation at the University of Antioquia, Colombia, where he is a member of the Translation Studies Research group. He holds an MA degree from Binghamton University, and is currently working on his PhD dissertation at the same university. His research interests include translation history and theory, translation teaching, Latin American literature and postcolonial studies. He participated in the translation into Spanish of Translators through History, edited by Jean Delisle and Judith Woodsworth and Delisle’s Portraits de traducteurs and Portraits de traductrices. Email: jgramirezg@gmail.com