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In this study, I examine the challenges faced by Francophone African literary authors, such as Olympe Bhêly-Quénum, in self-translating the haunted, oral “self” into colonial languages. Like most African literary writers, Olympe Bhêly-Quénum enriches his works with African elements that describe his sociocultural background.
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This conference presentation is an adaptation of my M.A. Thesis, 2025.
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This first chapter of the thesis centers on the systematic investigation of the analysis of an author’s style in a translational context, how existing theories and debates have informed the discourse: Jean Boase-Beier’s stylistic approach (Translation and Style 2) and Eugene Nida and Charles Taber’s notion of equivalence (12),
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Abstract: In the current thesis, I investigate how translation addresses authorial style and what distinct translational practices of meaning-making are revealed by a focus on style. African literature often employs linguistically and socioculturally nuanced stylistic figures within Western languages, like French and English (among others). This poses certain difficulties in the translation process.
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David Achodo 