Translingualism, Translation and Caribbean Poetry

Hilda de Windt Ayoubi was born and raised in Curaçao. She was a secondary school teacher and a lecturer at the University of Curaçao. She writes in Dutch, French, English, Papiamento and Spanish. Her works include several translations, and (language-related) poetry books, Gedicht, illustrated with her paintings (2018), and the bilingual book Geef me je Taal (2019). For her Papiamento translation of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (2014), she was awarded the Kahlil Gibran Chair at the University of Maryland. In 2019, she received UNESCO’s Certificate of Merit for her work on Papiamento. Pieter C. Muysken († 2021) was born in Bolivia but grew up in the Netherlands. He was a Professor of Linguistics at the universities of Amsterdam, Leiden, Nijmegen, and Stellenbosch, South Africa. As the winner of the Bernhard Prize, Prix des Ambassadeurs, the Spinoza Prize, and many other awards, he is considered one of the greatest, most diverse linguists of the time. He has over 230 publications to his name and his life-long research on Ecuadorian Quechua culminated in the book El kichwa ecuatoriano: Orígenes, riqueza, contactos (2019).

• How to Navigate This Book / Kon Nabega den e Buki aki, Acknowledgements, Preface, Part 1 Introducing the Mother Tongue,Introdukshon di Lenga di Mama, Papiamento and Guene/Gueni: The Importance of Translation and Poetry for the Development and Conservation of Mother Tongue,Papiamentu i Guene/Gueni: E Importansia di Tradukshon i Poesia pa Desaroyo i Konservashon di Lenga di Mama (Hilda de Windt Ayoubi), Part 2 The Poem Lenga di Mama and its Translations, Comments and Language Descriptions,E Poema Lenga di Mama i su Tradukshonnan i Komentario i Deskripshon di e Idiomanan (Pieter C. Muysken and Hilda de Windt Ayoubi), Creole Languages / Idioma Krioyo (Pieter C. Muysken. Jamaican Creole by Matthew Smith), African and Asian Languages / Idioma Afrikano i Asiatiko (Pieter C. Muysken), Amerindian Languages / Idioma Amerindio (Pieter C. Muysken), Constructed Languages / Idioma Konstrui (Herman Deke.nink), Germanic Languages / Idioma Germaniko (Pieter C. Muysken), Romance Languages / Idioma Romaniko (Pieter C. Muysken and Hilda de Windt Ayoubi (for Catalan)), Other Indo-European Languages /Otro Idiomanan Indo-Europeo (Pieter C. Muysken), Other Languages of Europe /Otro idiomanan di Europa (Pieter C. Muysken), Semitic Languages /Idioma Semitiko (Pieter C. Muysken and Alessandro Mengozzi (for the Aramaic languages and Hebrew)), Part 3 The Poem E 'papiá' di Papiamentu and its Translations,E Poema E 'papiá' di Papiamentu i su Tradukshonnan (The Translations and Editing of the Poem Hilda de Windt Ayoubi and Leontine Kuster (for French)), Part 4 The Poem Papiamentu pa Semper and its Translations,E Poema Papiamentu pa Semper i su Tradukshonnan (The Translations and Editing of the Poem Hilda de Windt Ayoubi and Pieter Muysken (for Dutch)), Part 5 The Poem Riba Ala di Lenga di Mama and its Translations,E Poema Riba Ala di Lenga di Mama i su Tradukshonnan (The Translations and Editing of the Poem Hilda de Windt Ayoubi, Pieter Muysken (for Dutch), Ingrid Donati (for Italian)), Part 6 Commentary / Komentario, Translation, Language Endangerment and Revitalization, Bilingual Texts,Tradukshon, Peliger pa Perdida di idioma i Revitalisashon di Idioma, Teksto Bilingual (Pieter C. Muysken), In Memoriam Professor Dr. Pieter C. Muysken / Na Memoria di Profesor Dr. Pieter C. Muysken (Hilda de Windt Ayoubi), Special Thanks Also / Un Danki Speshal Tambe, Note on the Authors / Informashon tokante e Outornan, Index / Indise.

The literary world focuses mainly on dominant European languages, mainly English, and rarely gives space to less spoken languages, certainly not creole languages; That is also why this book is unique in the literary world. Hilda de Windt hopes that this book will also put the cultures and languages of the many translators in the spotlight., Herman Deceuninck, Esperanto Magazine