Beyond nativism: Translingualism and Ngũgĩ's engagement with anglophonism

Autor:	Michael Andindilile
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Literature Subjectivity Linguistics and Language Translation criticism business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Psychological nativism Subject (philosophy) Face (sociological concept) Linguistics Power (social and political) Sociology Ideology business media_common Translingualism
Zdroj:	Perspectives. 22:179-197
ISSN:	1747-6623 0907-676X
DOI:	10.1080/0907676x.2012.758750
Popis:	In the face of the controversies surrounding the writings of the East African writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, this article contends that his Gikuyu fictions (also in English translation) are as much an integral part of Ngũgĩ's engagement with the Anglophone tradition as his earlier works published in English. Negotiating through various critical issues raised on Ngũgĩ and his articulations on the language of African literature, the paper uses his works to show that those originally written in English and those in Gikuyu benefit from similar processes of translingualism. It addresses the subject of the relationship between translation and minor languages, arguing that translation involves an inevitable and continuous manipulation of texts in which the words' subjectivity, ideology, visibility and power complicate the very process of translation and reception of texts from minor languages to major languages. Finally, the paper shows that Ngũgĩ's Anglophone and Gikuyu novels (in translation) are complementary in t...
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