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Crossing the border between postcolonial reality and the ‘outer world’: Translation and representation of the third space into a fourth space
Fernández Ruiz, María Remedios Corpas Pastor, Gloria Seghiri, Míriam
Fernández Ruiz, María Remedios
Corpas Pastor, Gloria
Seghiri, Míriam
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2019-03-31
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Stemming from poststructuralist interpretations of space and following Bhabha’s third space enunciation, in this paper we have coined the term fourth space and used this concept as a heuristic tool to address the need to establish a coherent standpoint for the analysis of postcolonial literature reception within a society with no immediate relation to the specific decolonisation process of the author’s country. We explore this concept through the case of the Spanish reception of African postcolonial literature. In Spain, this perspective has remained under-theorised in an era when representation of hybridity is at a vital point, since such representation will provide the social scaffolding for each person’s identity construction. Under these circumstances, literature can be transformative and the role of translation as a decolonising tool can help to create unbiased knowledge through an ethical interpretation of the original texts. We will analyse how those differentiating elements affect the translational process.
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Fernández Ruiz, M.R., Corpas Pastor, G. and Seghiri, M. (2019) Crossing the border between postcolonial reality and the ‘outer world’: Translation and representation of the third space into a fourth space, Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 21(2019), pp. pp. 55–70 .
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1697-7750
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2340-4981