Enjeux de la traduction du roman caribéen plurilingue : étude de traductions de Daniel Maximin, Ernest Pépin et Maryse Condé

Abstract

The translators of Caribbean novels have to deal with the delicate question of the transposition of multilingual content. Their task is to make accessible to a distant audience a work describing a multiple referential universe, both culturally and linguistically. In this article, I will observe the complications implied by translating novels by three contemporary Guadeloupean authors: Daniel Maximin, Ernest Pepin and Maryse Conde. I will also analyze the different strategies adopted by the translators to transpose as well as possible the universe depicted by these three novel writers. The purpose will be to determine the stakes, the possibilities and the limits of the translation of plurilingual Caribbean novels.