Traduction et Langues
Volume 5, Numéro 1, Pages 49-57
2006-12-31

Traduction De L'imaginaire Et L'altérité

Auteurs : Daoud Mohamed .

Résumé

Cet article traite de la question de la traduction de l'imaginaire (l'œuvre littéraire) et les enjeux relatifs aux images et aux écritures de l'altérité. Nous nous intéressons à la perception de l'Orient à travers la traduction de l'œuvre monumentale des Mille et une nuits. Nous avons réalisé que certains changements en terme de perception du monde arabo-musulman ont été repérés. La vision ethnocentriste et/ou europocentriste a commencé à présenter des fissures à partir de la première guerre mondiale. It is perhaps useless to repeat that the translation of modern literature, written in Arabic, is a necessity for the readership of the countries of Europe and the Americas, not only their translation allows exchanges, but above all it gives to see societies which are not blocked at the exotic, primitive stage, but which have integrated modernity despite the obscurantist temptations of certain elites who occupy the places of production or reproduction of symbolic capital, of the conception of political decision or of its implementation. Also, it must be said that with the beginning of this new and helping globalization, many classificatory categories have lost their old meanings to take on new meanings, such as history, ideology, culture. Several thinkers have predicted their "ends", what interests us here is "the end of monoculturalisms". Then, we can affirm that ultimately the East exists in the West and the latter exists in the former and that even these distinctions are rather more imaginary than real and only an objective dialogue between the different cultures can bring each civilization back to its true value and will reduce the distance between each other and globalize civilization, because world civilization can only be the coalition, on a world scale, of cultures each preserving its originality. The translation of symbolic and imaginary production will certainly contribute to this coalition.

Mots clés

Images, writings, otherness, translated works, the Western imagination