Linguistic Zones of the French Atlantic

Citation

Marshall B (2016) Linguistic Zones of the French Atlantic. In: Simon S (ed.) Speaking Memory: How Translation Shapes City Life. Culture of Cities Series, 5. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, pp. 191-204. http://www.mqup.ca/speaking-memory-products-9780773547889.php

Abstract
This chapter looks at the history and the cultural politics of literary translation in two cities of the French Atlantic: between French and English (New Orleans) and French and Spanish (Montevideo), with an emphasis on the nineteenth-century.

Keywords
French; Translation; nineteenth-century literature; New Orleans; race; Montevideo; Lautreamont; Supervielle