Rewriting Myth and the Fictional Turn in Translation: Elizabeth Cook’s Achilles
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https://doi.org/10.24310/ertci.14.2024.17539Keywords:
cross-dressing, fictional turn in translation, women's rewritings, Elizabeth Cook, AchillesAbstract
This article explores Elizabeth Cook’s novel Achilles (2001) in engaging the so-called fictional turn in translation against the backdrop of the blurred, fluid boundaries between translating processes and contemporary women’s rewritings of the classical tradition. Critical emphasis and consideration are placed not only on how Cook problematises traditionally androcentric attitudes towards the Homeric epic, but also on the novel’s 2003 Spanish translation. Cook builds up this complex rhetoric crossover between translation and fictionality not only through dialogic intratextuality and intertextuality, but also on the basis of multiple translational and liminal tropes, such as Achilles’ cross-dressing, informing and reshaping Homer’s narrative, which eventually emerges as a composite theorisation of translation embedded in open-response fiction.
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