Charles Forsdick: 'Monolingualism, Francopolyphonie and the dynamics of translation'

Charles Forsdick: 'Monolingualism, Francopolyphonie and the dynamics of translation'

A focus on the politics and practices of language use is central to understanding those processes shaping and determining the production and reception of emerging forms of contemporary literature in the Francosphere, where the problematic term of the ‘Francophone’ is slowly but increasingly yielding to alternatives such as the ‘Francopolyphone’ or the ‘Francopolygraphe’. Such an approach necessitates active reflection on questions of language—and specifically issues of monolingualism, and the risks of viewing contemporary literary production within a series of cross-cultural yet linguistically singularized frames.