Oksana Marafioti: Translating Identities

IF 0.1 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI:10.2478/abcsj-2019-0006

Mihaela Mudure

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Abstract

Abstract Language use is the consequence of certain dynamics in people’s lives. It is obvious that translation implies, even etymologically, movement, mobility, exchange. These phenomena are more topical than ever nowadays, in the age of globalization. In the present essay, I analyze the translation of identities in the work of Oksana Marafioti, a contemporary writer of Roma origins who emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States of America. Her memoir American Gypsy is an effort to trans-late towards a multiple, volatile, fluid identity where the languages spoken by Marafioti lead to belongings and rejections. The author records, in exquisite wording, the painful process of translating from a culture to another culture, from a language to another language.

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语言的使用是人们生活中某些动态的结果。很明显，翻译甚至在词源学上都意味着运动、流动和交流。在全球化时代，这些现象比以往任何时候都更受关注。在本文中，我分析了奥克萨娜·马拉菲奥蒂(Oksana Marafioti)作品中身份的翻译，她是一位来自苏联的罗姆裔当代作家，移民到美国。她的回忆录《美国吉普赛人》(American Gypsy)试图将其翻译成一种多元的、不稳定的、流动的身份，在这种身份中，马拉菲奥蒂人所说的语言导致了他们的财产和拒绝。作者用细腻的文字记录了从一种文化到另一种文化、从一种语言到另一种语言的痛苦翻译过程。

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American, British and Canadian Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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0.20

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10 weeks

期刊介绍： Founded in 1999, American, British and Canadian Studies, the journal of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania, is currently published by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. Re-launched in refashioned, biannual format, American, British and Canadian Studies is an international, peer-reviewed journal that sets out to explore disciplinary developments in Anglophone Studies in the changing environment forged by the intersections of culture, technology and electronic information. Our primary goal is to bring together in productive dialogue scholars conducting advanced research in the theoretical humanities. As well as offering innovative approaches to influential crosscurrents in contemporary thinking, the journal seeks to contribute fresh angles to the academic subject of English and promote shape-changing research across conventional boundaries. By virtue of its dynamic and varied profile and of the intercultural dialogue that it caters for, ABC Studies aims to fill a gap in the Romanian academic arena, and function as the first publication to approach Anglophone studies in a multi-disciplinary perspective. Within the proposed range of diversity, our major scope is to provide close examinations and lucid analyses of the role and future of the academic institutions at the cutting edge of high-tech. With this end in view, we especially invite contributions in the fields of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Area Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Language and Linguistics, Multimedia and Digital Arts, Translation Studies and related subjects. With its wide subject range, American, British and Canadian Studies aims to become one of the academic community’s premium scholarly resources.