Traducir las escrituras desterritorializadas: del elogio de la creolidad del autor al elogio de la marginalidad del traductor

Abstract

This paper offers an analysis of heterolingualism and translation in La grande drive des esprits by Gisèle Pineau (1993) and its Spanish translation, Una antigua maldición (1999). Based on the literary theories around Creoleness and on the theories of translation centered on a "new translation ethics", it analyzes heteroligualism and "writing-translation" in Pineau's work looking at the various mechanisms deployed in its Spanish translation, which privileges linguistic creativity. The paper has a dual goal: (1) to characterize the language of Pineau's work as deterritorialized in order to identify the ways in which the creole language is inserted in it and allows the author, along the lines of the creolists' ethical and aesthetic proposals, to offer a language of resistance against hegemonic colonial language uses; and (2) to examine the translation techniques employed and bring forth theoretical adaptations fitting to analyze this type of translation. The paper concludes with a reflection of the translator's possibilities to retain or "recreate" (marginalize?) the heterolingualism of the original work.  Key words: heterolingualism; writing-translation; creole; linguistic recreation; marginalization