Pierre-Paul, Chesline (2024) Eliminating White Supremacist culture as well as scientific and academic racism in translation studies (and beyond) by using Sacred, Ancestral, and emergent Afro-Indigenous, anti- and de-colonial languages and practices. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
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Abstract
This thesis introduces a groundbreaking step-by-step framework to translate Afro-Indigenous and other Indigenous languages anti-colonially without any racist and White Supremacist scientific biases (contrary to the established institutional norm and practice). It shows how to avoid whitewashing such translations and how to properly Indigenize the text as needed. This framework imparts tools to help properly retranslate corrupt source texts (i.e. original source texts that are so whitewashed that they erase Haitian's core Afro-Indigeneity). This thesis uses Frankétienne's seminal Masterpiece Dezafi as a model of what true Haitian looks like and of what a bias-free source and target texts need to look like post-translation to be scientifically accurate. As such, a breakdown of some of the top most common mistakes is introduced what is specific to translations from and into Haitian. Overarchingly, this thesis debunks historically entrenched racist and White Supremacist myths pervasive in Translation Studies (and beyond) about Haitian and it scientifically disproves its imposed status as a so-called "Creole" language and instead establishes it as a legitimate fully fledged Afro-Indigenous language that is anti-colonially African and Indigenous rather than reductively or necessarily "French".
| Divisions: | Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Études françaises |
|---|---|
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
| Refereed: | No |
| Authors: | Pierre-Paul, Chesline |
| Institution: | Concordia University |
| Degree Name: | M.A. |
| Program: | Traductologie |
| Date: | 26 February 2024 |
| Thesis Supervisor(s): | Bandia, Paul F. |
| Keywords: | Afro-Indigenous translation, anti-colonial translation, decolonial translation, anti-White Supremacist translation, scientific racism in translation studies, academic racism in translation studies, Afro-Indigeneity in translation studies, Haitian, Haitian language, Haitian Creole, African Indigenous language, African Indigenous languages, Afrodescendant languages, Afrodescendant language |
| ID Code: | 993450 |
| Deposited By: | CHESLINE PIERRE-PAUL |
| Deposited On: | 06 Jun 2024 13:33 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2024 13:33 |
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