Taking Sides: Urban Wandering as Decolonial Translation and Critique of Settler Colonialism

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  • Joshua Martin Price State University of New York at Binghamton

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.25071/1925-5624.40385

Résumé

Résumé : Le colonialisme fragmente le sens. Dans cet article, où la fragmentation coloniale du sens est une question de traduction, l’auteur recourt à une méthodologie décoloniale dans le but d’examiner les enjeux politiques rencontrés lorsque l’on évolue d’un côté puis de l’autre de la frontière du colonialisme. Le travail est fondé sur un processus conscient d’errance ou de flânerie urbaine, que les Situationnistes appellent dérive. Deux études de cas pour théoriser le décolonialisme itinérant sont ainsi proposées. La première est une esquisse de la frontière militarisée entre les États-Unis et le Mexique. Le second exemple concerne Colombus Day (jour férié aux États-Unis) et la journée des peuples autochtones. Dans cette étude de cas, la traduction est une question d’ajustement, tout comme quelqu’un qui s’ajuste à une conversation, ou tout comme on ajuste une fréquence radio. La métaphore d’une traduction qui mène à un ajustement nous permet de répondre à des questions concrètes et pratique de traduction dans nos contextes quotidiens, comme dans les débats théoriques contemporains en traductologie. 

Mots clés : traduction; colonialisme; méthodologie décoloniale; frontière; dérive

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Price, J. M. (2020). Taking Sides: Urban Wandering as Decolonial Translation and Critique of Settler Colonialism. Tusaaji: A Translation Review, 7(1), 68–83. https://doi.org/10.25071/1925-5624.40385