Afro-Caribbean Poetry in English

Wójcik, Bartosz

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“…Choć polska krytyka literacka -głównie akademicka -dostrzega produkcję kulturalną spoza zachodnich metropolii (np. Kołodziejczyk 2000, Nowak 2007, Wójcik 2015, zainteresowanie pisarstwem z Indii Zachodnich było dotąd dość nikłe; chlubnym wyjątkiem pozostaje Anna Branach-Kallas (2010) analizująca wybrane utwory prozatorskie karaibsko-kanadyjskiej autorki Dionne Brand. Wydaje się, że dodatkowym czynnikiem marginalizującym piśmiennictwo karaibskie była wieloletnia dominacja literatury iberoamerykańskiej, tłumaczonej i wydawanej (nierzadko świetnie) przez renomowane oficyny.…”

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„Polish up yourself and be no drag”. O anglojęzycznej literaturze karaibskiej po polsku

2016

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Polish Up Yourself and Be No Drag:" The Joy and Jeopardy of Reading Anglophone Caribbean Literature in Translation Almost 25 years after Derek Walcott received the Nobel Prize for Literature and 15 years since V.S. Naipaul's distinction, the observation of Montserratian E. A. Markham (2001) that Caribbean authors "no longer have to put the old case that the[ir] work is invisibilised," is clearly even more justified than in 1989, when it was originally made. However, Caribbean literature is still under-represented in Eastern Europe, an error of exclusion that the present paper ventures to discuss. For decades Polish publishers have been understandably replicating metropolitan canons, zigzagging between European and American bestsellers. It is only when a Caribbean or Caribbean-British writer gains an international distinction (Walcott, Naipaul) or becomes a worldwide publishing sensation (Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy) that their books are translated. Exceptions to this rule, such as the Polish editions of Caryl Phillips' A Distant Shore (Muza, 2006), Monique Roffey's The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (Nasza Księgarnia, 2011) and Kei Miller's The Last Warner Woman (Świat Książki, 2012), or single Francophone Caribbean novels, are few and far between. Arguably, it seems that this politics of translation and publishing stems from the systemic, colonially foisted peripherality of West Indian literature, its being sidelined by the cultural production of the UK as well as the USA, which in turn dominates the curricula of English departments in more culturally homogeneous countries such as Poland. However, what constitutes a major problem for the dissemination (and popularity) of Caribbean Creole literature in Polish is exactly what makes West Indian writing so engaging, multi-layered, polyphonous and intertextual-it is the cultural component 160 Bartosz Wójcik (for instance, the translation of "Creole folkways") that is often misread, misconstrued and, as a consequence, mis-rendered. For that reason, using a number of literary sources, the present paper will attempt to showcase a selection of translatological strategies of coping with, to quote Benjamin Zephaniah, "decipher[ing]/de dread chant" into Polish.

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„Polish up yourself and be no drag”. O anglojęzycznej literaturze karaibskiej po polsku

2016

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“…This does not mean that Polish academia ignores vibrant non-Western cultural production. In recent years, post-colonial criticism has been widely represented in Poland, for instance by Kołodziejczyk (2000), Nowak (2007), and Wójcik (2015). Still, with regard to West Indian writing, there has been little critical attention -one exception is Branach-Kallas (2010), who discusses select prose works of Caribbean-Canadian Dionne Brand, also a poet in her own right.…”

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“Polish Up Yourself and Be No Drag:” The Joy and Jeopardy of Reading Anglophone Caribbean Literature in Translation

Wójcik¹

2018

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Caribbean literature is still under-represented in Eastern Europe, an error of exclusion that the present paper ventures to discuss. For decades Polish publishers have been understandably replicating metropolitan canons, zigzagging between European and American bestsellers. It is only when a Caribbean or Caribbean-British writer gains an international distinction (Walcott, Naipaul) or becomes a worldwide publishing sensation (Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy) that their books are translated. Exceptions to this rule, such as the solitary Polish editions of Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore (Muza, 2006), Monique Roffey's The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (Nasza Księgarnia, 2011) and Kei Miller's The Last Warner Woman (Świat Książki, 2012), or single Francophone Caribbean novels, are few and far between. Arguably, it seems that this politics of translation and publishing stems from the systemic, colonially foisted peripherality of West Indian literature, side-lined by the cultural production of the UK as well as the USA, which dominates the curricula of English departments in more culturally homogeneous countries such as Poland. However, what constitutes a major problem for the dissemination (and popularity) of Caribbean Creole literature in Polish is exactly what makes West Indian writing so engaging, multi-layered, polyphonous and intertextual-it is the cultural component (for instance, the translation of "Creole folkways") that is often misread, misconstrued and, as a consequence, * This article was originally published in Polish in Przekładaniec 2016, vol. 33, pp. 159-175. The English version was published with the financial support from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (DUN grant). 109 "Polish Up Yourself and Be No Drag": Anglophone Caribbean... mis-rendered. For that reason, using a number of literary sources, the present paper will attempt to showcase a selection of translatological strategies for coping with, to quote Benjamin Zephaniah, "decipher[ing]/de dread chant" into Polish.

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Wójcik¹

2020

A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960–2015

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Afro-Caribbean Poetry in English

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„Polish up yourself and be no drag”. O anglojęzycznej literaturze karaibskiej po polsku

„Polish up yourself and be no drag”. O anglojęzycznej literaturze karaibskiej po polsku

“Polish Up Yourself and Be No Drag:” The Joy and Jeopardy of Reading Anglophone Caribbean Literature in Translation

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