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Article published In: Voice in Retranslation
Edited by Cecilia Alvstad and Alexandra Assis Rosa
[Target 27:1] 2015
► pp. 75–93

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Retranslation in a postcolonial context

Extra-textual and intra-textual voices in Hubert Aquin’s novel of Québec independence Prochain épisode

 | York University
Published online: 9 February 2015
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This article explores theoretical dimensions of voice in retranslation in postcolonial situations through a contextualized analysis of extra-textual and intratextual voices in the English-Canadian translation and retranslation of Prochain épisode, Hubert Aquin’s 1965 political novel on Québec’s independence from Canada. The three decades between the translations are marked by important social, political and cultural changes in both source and target language communities: from the 1960s turmoil with respect to Québec’s aspirations for independence to a certain political fatigue in both groups in the 2000s, from a focus within Québec letters on a national agenda to other aesthetic and cultural concerns, and from a colonial to a postcolonial editorial context in both Anglophone and Francophone literatures in Canada. What may appear as target culture recuperative strategies in the editorial and translatorial positioning of a retranslation may correspond on closer analysis to parallel changes in the source culture reception of the book.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Retranslation and extra-textual voices
    • 2.1Original and translation: publishers’ voices in editorial communication and paratexts
    • 2.2Retranslation: Changing political and editorial contexts
    • 2.3Retranslation: Changing literary contexts
  • 3.Retranslation and intra-textual voices
    • 3.1Intermingling intra-textual voices in postcolonial contexts
    • 3.2Intra-textual voice in Prochain épisode and Next Episode
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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