TY  - CHAP
A1  - Attridge, Derek
T1  - Untranslatability and the challenge of world literature : a South African example
T2  - The work of world literature / ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson ; Cultural Inquiry ; Vol. 19
N2  - What are called 'natural languages' are artificial, often politically instituted and regulated, phenomena; a more accurate picture of speech practices around the globe is of a multidimensional continuum. This essay asks what the implications of this understanding of language are for translation, and focuses on the variety of Afrikaans known as Kaaps, which has traditionally been treated as a dialect rather than a language in its own right. An analysis of a poem in Kaaps by Nathan Trantraal reveals the challenges such a use of language constitutes for translation. A revised understanding of translation is proposed, relying less on the notion of transfer of meaning from one language to another and more on an active engagement with the experience of the reader.
KW  - Sprache
KW  - Mundart
KW  - Afrikaans
KW  - Mundart Afrikaans <Kapstadt, Region>
KW  - Übersetzung
KW  - Weltliteratur
KW  - Language
KW  - Translation
KW  - Untranslatability
KW  - Kaaps
KW  - Worldliterature
KW  - Trantraal, Nathan
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/60939
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-609397
UR  - https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-19/attridge_untranslatability.pdf
SN  - 978-3-96558-013-8
SN  - 978-3-96558-022-0
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 26
EP  - 55
PB  - ICI Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -