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This thesis is divided into two main parts. The first part establishes the theoretical framework that served as a guide for my English translation of the short novel La débil mental by Argentinian author Ariana Harwicz, and consists of three chapters. Due to the novel’s narrative style and subject matter, my translation approach was centered on the topic of female madness in literature. Therefore, the first chapter examines feminist theories of translation and their relevance to the project at hand. The second examines the topic of madness in literature, and pays particular attention to depictions of women with mental illnesses in literary works. Then, in the third chapter, I will attempt to draw on the previous two chapters to develop an approach to translating female madness, and examine specific choices made in my translation of La débil mental in that light. Finally, the second main part of the thesis consists of my translation of the novel.

No abstract available. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Visual Arts / unrestricted

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In the sense that women have been hystericized by male theories about femininity, Freudian psychoanalysis has functioned as an institution which seeks women's silence. Hysteria is the dis-ease of this silence; that is to say, it is a set of eloquent symptoms--a "writing" on the body--which signify women's oppression/repression. It is within this apparent contradiction that feminine representation takes place. The figure for such representation is, therefore, hysteria: working "in the gaps," "between the lines," telling the story of patriarchy only to disrupt this story, Frida Kahlo, Anais Nin, and Kathy Acker create feminine fictions. Kahlo's autobiographical painting is inextricable from her obsession with husband Diego Rivera, just as Nin's erotica is inextricable from her relationship with Henry Miller. Likewise, Acker's postmodern production is entangled in the androcentric agenda which attempts to recuperate patriarchy by appropriating the figure of Woman. The "engine" of transference/counter-transference becomes the most viable description of the hysterical process these women employ to represent themselves. The epilogue contains original fictions which extend comment on both hysteria and feminine representation.

La névrose compte parmi les pathologies les plus répandues sous le Second Empire. Elle met en évidence à la fois la France saine et la France détraquée. Le progrès technique, l’essor industriel et le développement du capitalisme, suscitent des appétits, qui mal satisfaits, sont sources de déséquilibre. Trois états caractérisent alors le processus physiologique français, les appétits, la jouissance et le détraquement. Ainsi, de la jouissance collective, l’on aboutit à la névrose collective dans cette société décadente. Emile Zola qui peint alors la société contemporaine, traduit dans de nombreux ouvrages tels que Les Rougon-Macquart et Lourdes, son intérêt pour la névrose. Cet intérêt de l’écrivain s’explique non seulement par le fait que son époque est névrosée mais aussi parce qu’il est lui-même névrosé. Afin de guérir du mal névrotique, Zola propose à la fois son projet d’hygiène individuelle et son projet social. La panacée qu’il conseille alors, est d’une part la loi du travail et la loi de l’amour naturel et d’autre part, la canalisation des passions et la réorganisation de la société. / Neurosis is one of the most widespread pathologies under the Second Empire. It highlights both a healthy France and a contorted France. Technical progress, industrial development and the growth of capitalism, encourage greed, which, when poorly fed, is source of imbalance. Three States then characterize the French physiological process: greed, enjoyment and dissatisfaction. Thus, from collective enjoyment, it ends up with a collective neurosis in this decadent society. Emile Zola who then painted contemporary society, depicts in many books such as the Rougon-Macquart and Lourdes, his interest for neurosis. This interest of the writer is not only linked to the fact that his time is neurotic but also because he himself is neurotic. In order to cure himself from the neurotic disease, Zola provides both his individual health project and his social project. The panacea he advises, is on the one hand the law of labour and the law of natural love, and on the other hand the channeling of the passions and the reorganization of society.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2009. / Adviser: Christopher Niess. Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-100).

Foucault's argument in the short work "Of Other Spaces" suggests that rhetoric can be defined as how language is used to create and foster power inequities in hierarchical systems. Further, rhetoric enables individuals or groups to gain credibility and mobility within those systems--and to deny that same credibility and mobility to others. The nineteenth and early twentieth century was a period of transition for women, particularly middle- and upper-class white women. During this time, activist activities conducted by and on behalf of women were considered a threat to U.S. society. As a result, rhetoric was used with the intention of limiting American women's credibility and mobility.Although women had always been considered physiologically and intellectually inferior, diagnoses with a variety of "female-only" ailments became more common in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For men threatened by women's increasing political activism, this became a very effective method of arguing that women should be denied access to power. Because women were considered outside of the structure of society by virtue of a physiological state they were unable to change, then by definition women could only be regulated, and never regulate. Moreover, the postbellum expansion of civil society into a mass-market structure was an extremely efficient means of distributing that message.In this work, I use Foucault's "science of discipline" as the heuristic to analyze these debates. Foucault lists numerous categories and subcategories that can fall under the science of discipline--far too many to productively and coherently apply here. Therefore, I have modified the science of discipline into a four-pronged process. Applying this heuristic to the definition of rhetoric put forth here, I argue in this work that the medical profession, the magazine industry, and activist women engaged in dialogue with one another within the context of the suffrage movement. I argue that these specialized discourses responded to and built upon ideological allegiances, both explicitly and implicitly, to address the issue of woman's place in society--the "woman question."

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Canterbury, 2007. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-125). Also available via the World Wide Web.