Contemporary Literary Translations into Judeo-Spanish as a Territory of Sephardic Language in its Postvernacular Mode
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https://doi.org/10.46661/meldar.9562Keywords:
Sephardic literature, literary translation, postvernacular culture, endangered language, text as «territory»Abstract
This article presents the contemporary translations into Judeo-Spanish, published in the form of a book, against the background of the current sociolinguistic and sociocultural situation of Sephardic language, which nowadays is considered as severely endangered. It has ceased to be the language of literature with the exception of several authors who since 1970-ties have published poetry. In the 21st century some of them have noticed the usefulness of translation in the protection of Judeo-Spanish. My analysis of different elements of the books in question shows that translation belongs to the repertoire of postvernacular practices. The further claim is that in times when there is no geographical area where Judeo-Spanish continues to be spoken, the translated literature is an important part of the «territory» of the existence of the language which intersects with other «territories». They function together as points of reference in the construction of Sephardic identity based on the relation with its language of heritage.
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