Manifestations of Greek in the English Original of The Wind Under My Lips: Translating Back into the Mother Tongue

Despina Pirketti

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Chapter 12 Manifestations of Greek in the English Original of The Wind Under My Lips

Translating Back into the Mother Tongue

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Pages:: 146–152

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004700116_014

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The essay seeks to show how, throughout Stephanos Stephanides’s prose and poems, Greek (and the Cypriot dialect) is contained within the English original by way of occasional transliterated words, but most notably across a variety of tropes, images and rhythms that either directly or indirectly reverberate the author’s native tongue. Even though English is Stephanides’s dominant language, the essay proposes that his original writing is imbued with not only his polyglottic background but mainly with the linguistic skills he had acquired by the age of eight, before his dislocation from Cyprus to the United Kingdom. In spite of its natural attrition, the mother tongue is ingrained within the original English in ways that may not be readily discernible to Anglophone readers. This latent if uneasy bilingualism will be put forward, across specific examples drawn from the translational process, as a potent tool for understanding Stephanides’s verbal behavior as being, among other things, an act of resistance against linguistic and cultural homogenization.

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Shifting Horizons and Crossing Borders

Thinking with Stephanos Stephanides

Series: Cross/Cultures, Volume: 222

Cover Shifting Horizons and Crossing Borders

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004700116

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 18 Jul 2024

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Part 1 On Wind, the Sea, and Other Things Fluid

Part 2 On Space, Borders and Poetry

Part 3 On the Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics of Translation

Part 4 On Memory and/as Writing

Part 5 On Poetic Encounters or the Power of Fiction

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Chapter 12 Manifestations of Greek in the English Original of The Wind Under My Lips

Translating Back into the Mother Tongue

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