Writing between Languages: Translation and Multilingual Aesthetics in Francophone Indian Literature

我的项目将使用翻译的研究方法作为一种手段，探索和比较由印度裔作家，包括来自印度，毛里求斯和加勒比作家的法语文学的多语言诗学。首先，我将通过现有的英语翻译来分析这些作品，以探索这些作品的多语言诗学可能带来的启示。其次，借鉴后殖民翻译理论，对这些作品的摘要进行翻译，并分析这一过程所揭示的多语言审美。我还将在现有的翻译研究方法的基础上，通过实践和评价来探讨这种双重方法论作为文学分析模式的有效性。由于印度语言、克里奥尔语和殖民地语言的多样性，通过研究一个尚未充分研究的语料库，该语料库在其多语言性方面是独特的，该研究将为这些语言之间的复杂关系提供独特的见解。因此，该项目旨在对当代法语圈的多语言、译语写作和后殖民翻译等现有研究做出原创性贡献。

My project will use the research methodology of translation as a means to explore and compare the multilingual poetics of Francophone literature by writers of Indian origin, including writers from India, Mauritius and the Caribbean. Firstly, I will analyse these works through the lens of existing English translations to explore what light this may shed on the multilingual poetics of the works. Secondly, drawing on postcolonial translation theories, I will translate extracts of these works and analyse what this process can reveal about their multilingual aesthetic. I will also investigate the effectiveness of this two-fold methodology as a mode of literary analysis through practice and evaluation, building on existing studies on translation as a research methodology. By examining an as yet understudied corpus which is distinct in its multilingualism, owing to its multiplicity of Indian languages, Creoles, and colonial languages, the study will provide unique insights into the complex relations between these languages. The project thus aims to make an original contribution to existing studies on Multilingualism, Translingual Writing, and Postcolonial Translation in the contemporary Francosphere.