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Relationnalité langagière dans la création et la traduction de l’extrême contemporain : présentation

Dominique Hétu and Eftihia Mihelakis

Traduire les archives au présent : retour sur la tâche de traduction

Jérôme Melançon
The mass of documents from the archives of Canada’s Indian residential schools presents an enormous task of translation. This article seeks to understand this task through a commentary of Walter Benjamin’s essay “The Task of the Translator” and through the reflection it enables, all in order to orient the practice of translation. It leads to a concern for what in literary works as well as in colonial institutions remains mysterious and impossible to grasp, as much as for a capacity to make truth sayable and to arrive at a more complete understanding of the relationship between languages.

écrire queer et dizygote

Chantal Nadeau

France Daigle et la scénographie du chiac

Nicole Nolette
France Daigle, whose novels are now recognized as much for their exuberant use of Moncton’s French varieties as for her ambivalence towards them, hasn’t always embraced multilingualism. Daigle wrote works marked by a decontextualized formalism, then gradually embraced a new relationship to language and writing through contact with the Moncton-Sable theatre collective between 1997 and 2004. This article examines Daigle’s brief but crucial time writing for the theatre, revisited in the light of unpublished typescripts preserved in the writer’s fonds at Library and Archives Canada.

« j’allumions la mèche de nos langues » / « this book isn’t written in English » : les traductions postlingues de Georgette LeBlanc et de Dominique Bernier-Cormier

Arianne Des Rochers
Abstract: This article analyzes, from a “postlingual” perspective, two texts published in Acadie in recent years that challenge the monolingual, normative regime of translation: Georgette LeBlanc’s translation Océan (2019), and Dominique Bernier-Cormier’s poetry collection Entre Rive and Shore (2023). A postlingual reading of these texts leads us to redefine writing and translation beyond unitary languages, welcoming instead the constitutive heterogeneity of linguistic practices. By refusing to address their readers through a supposedly common and transparent national language, LeBlanc and Bernier-Cormier show that there are bases other than “languages” for relating to one another, and that incommensurability, rather than being an obstacle to relationality, can be its very foundation.

Québécoises de deuxième génération : un dialogue sur la loi 101

Toula Drimonis and Eftihia Mihelakis