The translation of Louisiana into the south

Mississippi Quarterly

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-97

  Malena, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 60950707652     PISSN: 0026637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (36)

1. Le Discours antillais (1981; Paris: Gallimard, 1997)
2. Dash also notes that the term "New World Studies" is "an unavoidable compromise" since the "very formulation of the term suggests some of the complexities and ambiguities inherent in mapping this new area of literary and cultural investigation" (The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context [Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998], p. 1)
3. Handley heeds Dash's warning that "the complexity of the Americas cannot be reduced to Cuba as a metaphor for 'the quintessential American crossroads - the ultimate New World paradigm'" (Dash, p. 5)
4. His own comparative work on postslavery literatures is essential "to demonstrate the interdependency of plantation cultures in the Americas in the construction of divergent national identities" in spite of the fact that the "cross-fertilization of theories of diaspora, race, gender, and postcoloniality no doubt comes with inherent risks of oversimplification and anachronistic misapplication" (George B. Handley, Postslavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and White [Charlottesville: University Presss of Virginia, 2000], p. 6)
5. John C. Hawley, ed. Writing the Nation: Self and Country in the Post-Colonial Imagination. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996), p. xiv
6. Across the Lines: Travel, Language, Translation (Cork: Cork University Press, 2000), pp. 16-17
7. Jerah Johnson, "Colonial New Orleans: A Fragment of the Eighteenth-Century French Ethos," in Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization, ed. Arnold R. Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992), p. 29
8. See Lawrence Venuti, The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation (New York: Routledge, 1995)
9. The Location of Culture (New York: Routledge, 1994)
10. "Ambivalence in Cultural Theory: Reading Homi Bhabha's Dissemi-Nation," in Writing the Nation: Self and Country in the Post-Colonial Imagination, p. 184
11. The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from "The Tempest" to "Tarzan" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 123
12. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), p. 1
13. Ruthless Democracy: A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), p. 23
14. "Norms and the Determination of Translation: A Theoretical Framework," in Translation, Power, Subversion, ed. Román Álvarez and M. Carmen-África Vidal (Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters Ltd., 1996), p. 26
15. "International Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution," Americas, 26 (1970), 395
16. Gabriel Debien, "Les Colons de Saint-Domingue réfugiés à Cuba, 1793-1815," Revista de Indias, 13 (1953), 560-605, and 14 (1954), 11-36
17. Gabriel Debien and René Le Gardeur, Jr., "Les Colons de Saint-Domingue Réfugiés à la Louisiane," Louisiana Review, 10 (1981), 11-49, 97-141
18. Paul Lachance, "Intermarriage and French Cultural Persistence in Late Spanish and Early American New Orleans," Histoire sociale/Social History, 15:29 (1982), 54
19. "The Foreign French," in Hirsch and Logsdon, pp. 101-130
20. For a detailed analysis of this translation, see Anne Malena, "La Louisiane: une trahison américaine telle qu'illustrée dans la traduction de Vue de la colonie espagnole du Mississippi de Berquin-Duvallon, " TTR, 15 (2e semestre 2002), 63-96
21. and Anne Malena, "Louisiana: A Colonial Space of Translation," Forum for Modern Language Studies, 40 (April 2004) 204-213
22. Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes, Our People and Our History, trans. and ed. Sister Dorothea Olga McCants (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973), p. xxii
23. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, "The Formation of Afro-Creole Culture," in Hirsch and Logsdon, p. 61
24. White by Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1986)
25. Village Voice, 39 (December 6, 1994), 26
26. "The Question of Meaning-Value in the Political Economy of the Sign," in Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations, ed. Lydia H. Liu (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999), p. 14
27. "Journalistes des paroisses louisianaises," Comptes Rendus de l'Athénée louisianais, (November 1949), pp. 21-33
28. Tribune of New Orleans/La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orléans, August 13, 1861
29. For more information on the contents of the New Orleans Tribune, see Laura V. Rouzan, who does not consider it from a translation perspective and states that it "emphasized the English rather than the French language" ("The Genesis of the Black Press in New Orleans: L'Union and the New Orleans Tribune," in Gumbo People, ed. Sybil Kein [New Orleans: Margaret Media, Inc., 1999], p. 147). Although my initial examination of the paper seems to suggest otherwise, I reserve judgment until further analysis can provide evidence for either position
30. This analysis will also have to take into consideration Jean-Charles Houzeau, the Belgian editor of the Tribune (1864-1867), and the English translation of his memoir, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press)
31. Edward Laroque Tinker, Les Ecrits de langue française en Louisiane au XIXe siècle (Nendeln: Kraus Reprint, 1970), p. 337
32. Wilford B. Yearns, Jr., "Charles Gayarré, Louisiana's Literary Historian," Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 33 (1950), p. 256
33. Charles Étienne Gayarré, "Some Letters of Charles Étienne Gayarré on Literature and Politic, 1854-1885," Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 33 (1950), p. 248
34. See Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh, ed., Textes anciens en créole louisianais (Hamburg: H. Buske, 1987), pp. 4-6
35. Lydia H. Liu, "Introduction," Tokens of Exchange, p. 5
36. "The Writing of Haiti: Pierre Faubert, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Beyond," American Literary History, 13 (2001), 409