One thousand flavours of translation in ‘Vivre l’orange – To Live the Orange’
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https://doi.org/10.7203/HYBRIDA.5(12/2022).25382Keywords:
Cixous, Derrida, multilingual writing, plureal feminine writing, literary translation
Abstract
This article attempts to read Hélène Cixous’ bilingual book Vivre l’orange – To Live the Orange (1979) through the lens of extreme multiplicity. I analyse the innumerable meanings given to the notion of translation in the book: for example, how translation functions as a form of embodied and affective knowledge and as such resembles creative writing. In addition to this, I compare Cixous’ writing and thinking to those of two Chicana authors, Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, in order to decipher Cixous’ «non-original», but «oranginal» writing in the book. Finally, I consider her concept of the «source» in light of the similar concept of postcolonial thinker Trinh T. Minh-ha, and I examine the similarities between Cixous’ and Derrida’s ideas about linguistic exclusion in a (post)colonial context. Reading Cixous from the angle of extreme multiplicity allows us to suggest similarities between Cixous’ thinking and intersectional thinking.
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Aura Sevón, Université de Turku et Université Paris 8
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