“Why do we have so many uncles?”: Linguistic Transference and Translationality in Gurnah’s Peponi and Dhulma.
A distinctive thread is sustained through Abdulrazak Gurnah’s works, Paradise (1994) and Afterlives (2020) before culminating in Theft (2025), making up a trilogy. This article interrogates the dynamics of reflection and refraction in the translation into Swahili of the trilogy, particularly Paradis...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:pla_4763 https://doi.org/10.4000/16673 urn:doi:10.4000/16673 en https://journals.openedition.org/pla/4763 2026-05-04T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/16673 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ “Why do we have so many uncles?”: Linguistic Transference and Translationality in Gurnah’s Peponi and Dhulma. Postcolonial Literatures and Arts Société des Études Postcoloniales info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/3074-5136 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/pla Hadjivayanis, Ida translation Swahili translationality translating home cross-cultural narrative Peponi Dhulma A distinctive thread is sustained through Abdulrazak Gurnah’s works, Paradise (1994) and Afterlives (2020) before culminating in Theft (2025), making up a trilogy. This article interrogates the dynamics of reflection and refraction in the translation into Swahili of the trilogy, particularly Paradise and Theft, translated respectively as Peponi (2022) and Dhulma (2025). Translation is understood as movement between languages, cultures, and narrative-worlds that foreground questions of linguistic transference, translational strategies, and translationality. |
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A distinctive thread is sustained through Abdulrazak Gurnah’s works, Paradise (1994) and Afterlives (2020) before culminating in Theft (2025), making up a trilogy. This article interrogates the dynamics of reflection and refraction in the translation into Swahili of the trilogy, particularly Paradise and Theft, translated respectively as Peponi (2022) and Dhulma (2025). Translation is understood as movement between languages, cultures, and narrative-worlds that foreground questions of linguistic transference, translational strategies, and translationality. |
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Hadjivayanis, Ida |
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“Why do we have so many uncles?”: Linguistic Transference and Translationality in Gurnah’s Peponi and Dhulma. |
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“Why do we have so many uncles?”: Linguistic Transference and Translationality in Gurnah’s Peponi and Dhulma. |
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“Why do we have so many uncles?”: Linguistic Transference and Translationality in Gurnah’s Peponi and Dhulma. |
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