Performing Archives of Passing, Moving Bodies across Language

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  • Heather Hermant

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https://doi.org/10.25071/1925-5624.37813

Résumé

Ce récit de voyage expérimental traite d’un projet de recherche/création sur Esther Brandeau / Jacques La Fargue, une juive qui se faisait passer pour un chrétien. À son arrivée au Canada, son double subterfuge a été découvert et on a déporté cette personne qui se déplaçait sur plusieurs axes de différenciation à la fois. Ce mouvement, ces déplacements multiples et simultanés et la nature fragmentaire de ce que nous pouvons savoir sur sa vie nous obligent à puiser à des modes de connaissance particuliers afin de pouvoir traduire ce personnage des textes coloniaux français en un discours colonial actuel. L’article décrit la tâche complexe de traduire le premier spectacle boîte noire traitant de cette histoire, ribcage: this wide passage par Heather Hermant (traduction française de Nadine Desrochers intitulée thorax : une cage en éclats). Cette pratique-recherche s’inscrit dans les débats sur « le corps comme archive » et sur ce qui compte comme connaissances; l’auteure propose la performance-recherche comme un terrain propice à l’élaboration d’une « intersectionnalité nouvelle » et à l’exploration du corps comme traduction entre genres et entre les frontières linguistiques, temporelles et spatiales.

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Hermant, H. (2014). Performing Archives of Passing, Moving Bodies across Language. Tusaaji: A Translation Review, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.25071/1925-5624.37813

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