Carrying over and carrying back: revis(ualis)ing loss and absence in Joseph Joffo's Un sac de billes. (2nd January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Munyard, Stephanie Faye
• Is Part Of: Translator. Volume 26:Number 1(2020)
• Page Start: 43
• Page End: 60
• Publication Date: 2020-01-02
• Subjects: Multimodal -- holocaust -- translation -- retranslation -- bande dessinée; Translating and interpreting -- Periodicals; Intercultural communication -- Periodicals; Traduction -- Périodiques; Communication interculturelle -- Périodiques; Intercultural communication; Translating and interpreting; Periodicals; 418.02
• DOI: 10.1080/13556509.2020.1796901
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-0409

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this article I consider how the themes of loss and absence are transmitted through multimodal retranslations of Joseph Joffo's Un sac de billes (1973). The analysis explores how the visual functions as a language for Joseph Joffo – a new way of seeing, telling and remembering – and as an outlet through which knowledge of the Holocaust can be remediated. The article is divided into two main parts. The first considers the role of translation and of retranslation in the transmission of Holocaust memory and Joffo's relationship to the multimodal retranslations of his work. Here, I point to retranslation's role as a process through which Joffo is able to work through and correct inaccurate representations of his memory, as well as represent his memories for new audiences. In the second section, I explore the themes of loss and absence in Un sac de billes in view of Boase-Beier's work on 'stylistic silence'. This section brings together textual studies with the language of the visual to show how the formal features of the visual provide new possibilities for the representation of silences and for depicting loss which exceeds all imagination.