Against Translation: The Figure of the Literary Doula in the Birth and Death of Three Hispanic Literatures
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https://doi.org/10.31261/PLS.2022.12.01.10Keywords:
minoritized languages, translation studies, spanglish, judeo-spanish, portuñolAbstract
Speakers of minoritized languages have traditionally been required to translate their experience into the language of the larger society in which they live, but some people are resisting this obligation. This paper hypothesizes as to why linguistic labour, defined as the emotional burden of advocating for the legitimacy of a minoritized tongue, disproportionately falls on the shoulders of women and queer people and how these “literary doulas” in three Hispanic contexts have impacted their respective communities and opposed the idea of translating the minorized experience into a dominant language.
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