Inarticulacy in Creative Writing Practice and Translation

Judy Kendall is Associate Professor (Reader) in Visual Text and Creative Translation at Salford University, UK. She is an award-winning poet and investigates visual and poetic processes in original and translated literary works. Her academic articles, monographs and other writings experiment with methods of academic enquiry that involve reflective, creative and visual modes.

• Introduction to Where Language ThickensPreamble;A Thickening Approach;The Thick of Geertz;Threshold;The Discomfort of Breaking from the Default;Visual;Chinese Character Analogy;Sendak and ‘Where’;Shakespeare and ‘thickens’;Thickening Old English and twenty-first century Physics;Geertz and the Physical1. Thickness in Creative and Translation ProcessesIntroduction;The Thick in Appiah’s Translation Approach;Hermans Widens the Compass;Spiralling into Mailloux’ Creative Essay Practice;Bryant’s Fluid Text;Scott’s Ongoing Encounters;Wright’s Interstitial Translation-with-commentary;The Visual and the Spatial;Translating the Reader: Bill Griffiths and ‘Y Gododdin’;Visual Text in Old English Riddles;Tactical Misrecognition;Where Visual Text Thickens Critical Thought;The Themersons’ Semantic Poetry Translations2. The Moment of Code-switchingIntroduction;Tutuola’s Innovations;Okara’s Near-literal Approach;Achebe’s Translatory Code-switching;Stages of Code-switch;The Journey of Obi; Inside the Switch;Mid-word Code-switching;Creative Proverb Use;Proverbs without Gloss;Fascinating conversations3. Made-up EnglishesMade-up Englishes and Code-switching;The Development of Made-up English in Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy;More Stable Englishes: Shadow Tongue and Riddleyspeak;The Mechanics of Reading;Non-deliberate Construction Processes;Synthetic Sampling: Terry and Bergvall4. Sourcing Tolkien and Le GuinMade-up Languages as SourceTolkien’s Employment of Racial and Colonial Stereotypes;Tolkien’s Linguistic Aesthetic;Predictive Processing;Effects of Limited Agency in Tolkien’s Work;Where Thickening Occurs: Ingoldian Wayfaring;Where Thickening Occurs: Tolkien’s Maps;The Inaccessible and the Untranslated in Tolkien and Le Guin;The Anthropological Novel;Writing from the Future: Time-travelling;Writing from the Future: Physical Embodiment5. The Paratextual, the Visual and the ThingInter-modal – Composing between;The Visual and the Typographical;Not-quite Translation;Textual-Visual Shimmers;Material Translation and Composition6. The Thick Moment of NowComposition and Translation as Felt Sensation: Unworded, Unbound;Unworded Thought and Not-quite Translation in The Skriker;The Kakekotoba Stutter;Quantum Translation;Vital Materiality;Chamoiseau: Resisting Singular Dominance;Fuzzy Beginnendings;World-in-Formation;Dipping into Un-clarity;The Material-Discursive Dynamic;From Zorg to Zong!;Notes on and in Zong!;Not-telling – Against the Reductive Dominance of Language;Athematic Intention and Physical Translation;Thick Moments of Now;Acknowledging, Not a CodaBibliographyIndex

A fascinating, highly-original and wide-ranging book which explores how the ‘thickening’ of language through visual and formal experiment can transform both the experience of reading and the potential of creative research.