Date: 2003
Type: Article
Re-Translations, or, Can the Postcolonial Construct a Home? A Reading of Brian Friel’s The Communication Cord
EnterText, 2003, 2, 2, 68-83
O'MALLEY, Aidan, Re-Translations, or, Can the Postcolonial Construct a Home? A Reading of Brian Friel’s The Communication Cord, EnterText, 2003, 2, 2, 68-83
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/17655
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This paper reads Friel's 1982 play 'The Communication Cord' as a re-translation of the translation strategies that were performed in his earlier play 'Translations'. In taking these out of the colonial context of 'Translations' and re-performing them in the post-colonial setting of 'The Communication Cord', Friel points to the fact that a similar form of linguistic hegemony operates in post-colonial Ireland and that this creates a quandary that must be recognised and negotiated by the post-colonial.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/17655
ISSN: 1472-3085
External link: http://arts.brunel.ac.uk/gate/entertext/2_2_pdfs/malley.pdf
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