The traumas of translation and the translation of trauma: translation and cultural plurality in Fremd and Yasbincek.(Angelika Fremd and Morgan Yasbincek)(Critical essay) From: Australian Literary Studies | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 University of Queensland Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

How would it be to read literally David Malouf's injunction to cease 'seeing [Australia] as ... a second-hand Europe', and to replace it with a vision of Australia as 'a Europe translated--not just transported, but translated' (Interview 289)? Malouf's rhetoric of translation is generally understood in a metaphorical sense, and in that way the novelty of what he is saying can easily be cushioned. Australia is a nation constructed of translation--and mistranslation. Curiously enough, Malouf's own autobiography records the failure of translation: the Lebanese emigre grandfather, ...

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