Metaphors in dialogue: feminist literary critics, translators and writers

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2011.3.12
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Feminist translation, Feminist literary criticism, Women writers, Metaphors, Dialogue

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Eleonora Federici

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This article seeks to investigate the changing perception of the term “translation” in feminist TS thanks to a continuous dialogue with other fields such as, feminist literary criticism, post-structuralism, postcolonial studies and cultural studies that have borrowed and utilised the notion of translation. “Translation” has become a “travelling concept” for feminist scholars who have utilized it in a metaphorical way for a feminist critique of language and ideology. The essay proposes a new approach to feminist translation studies from an interdisciplinary perspective that takes into account key-concepts and figurative language in different feminisms in dialogue. Metaphors of translation and translators have influenced and have been influenced by other fields of research in a fruitful interaction among disciplines thanks to a convergence of the topics and issues at stake. A new rhetoric has been created for translation and translators, a rhetoric born from an interaction with other feminist theories that gave birth to an enriching dialogue among disparate women’s voices.

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Federici, E. (2014). Metaphors in dialogue: feminist literary critics, translators and writers. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (3), 355–376. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2011.3.12
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No. 3 (2011): Woman and Translation: Geographies, Voices and Identities/Mujer y Traducción: Geografías, Voces e Identidades
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