Crippled Two-tongue and the Myth of Benign Translatability

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  • Maya Chacaby

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1925-5624.40315

Resumen

Este es un relato en anishinaabemowin (también llamada lengua ojibwa). Se trata de una historia sobre los efectos incapacitantes que las traducciones eurocéntricas ejercen a través de procesos de redacción, reducción y refracción de sentidos. En este relato figuran polluelos cubiertos de heces fecales, buques del Imperio, un pantano, un Oráculo, un personaje lisiado de lengua bífida, otro “tradicional Nish”, una tarjeta de crédito falsa, y también un animal gigante, llamado Anishinaabemowin, al cual todos quieren devorar entero y no quieren compartir. Es una historia de dislocaciones forzadas y del asombroso viaje hacia la rearticulación de todas las partes de una lengua. Advertencia: en el curso de la redacción de este artículo unos cuantos polluelos sufrieron heridas narrativas pero al final salen bien librados.

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Chacaby, M. (2016). Crippled Two-tongue and the Myth of Benign Translatability. Tusaaji: A Translation Review, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.25071/1925-5624.40315