Authors who write and publish literary texts in their second, third or fourth chronologically acquired language have always existed. It is indeed perhaps surprising that it is only in the last twenty years that a specialized research field has emerged that studies this “translingual” literature as a specific sub-category within literary studies.

This project focuses on translingual fiction in French from 1945 onwards, a period when translingual writers not only came to play a particularly prominent role within French-language literature, but also increasingly came to be viewed – and often to perceive themselves – as belonging to a specific “translingual” literary tradition. The study aims to establish for the first time an overview and periodization of translingual writing in French from the mid-twentieth century to today, and will also contribute to our understanding of how translingual writing has been theorised and received in a specifically French-language context.

Alice Pick Duhan. Foto: Privat

Alice Duhan is a postdoctoral research fellow in French and Comparative Literature in the Department of Romance Studies and Classics at Stockholm University. Her research interests include literary multilingualism, self-translation, world literature theory, and contemporary French and Francophone fiction.

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