Ioanna Chatzidimitriou
Biographic Data
| ID | 1462402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ioanna Chatzidimitriou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ioanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Chatzidimitriou |
| SIGNATURE | CHATZIDIMITRIOU I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9346-9697 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Justice, Temporality, and the Martinican Carnival
This article examines Ladjablès, femme sauvage by Martinican playwright Daniely Francisque as a theatrical intervention into questions of justice, temporality, and colonial legacy in the Caribbean. Reworking the folkloric figure of Ladjablès, Francisque stages an encounter between a predatory man and a mythic woman during Carnival night, transforming a traditional cautionary tale into a meditation on colonial subjectivity, gendered violence, and …
Translingual Literature in French
Speaking Silence
Speaking Silence: Translation in Chahdortt Djavann’s La Muette Ioanna Chatzidimitriou Published in 2008 by Flammarion, Chahdortt Djavann’s novel La Muette tells the intertwined stories of the fifteen-year-old Fatemeh and her thirty-year-old paternal aunt, la muette—we are never told the muette’s name but we do learn that as a child she lost the ability, or desire, to speak after witnessing her father, a violent drug addict, beating her mother to …
Self-Translation as Minorization Process
Self-Translation as Minorization Process: Nancy Huston's Limbes/Limbo Ioanna Chatzidimitriou (bio) The practice of literary self-translation, deeply rooted in the linguistic and cultural traditions and realities of the early modern period in Europe, is by definition synonymous with the bilingual and, by extension, the bicultural conditions. Although the post-Renaissance continental shift toward national languages and national literary canons forc…
Situating Silence
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Situating Silence
Self-Translation as Minorization Process
Self-Translation as Minorization Process: Nancy Huston's Limbes/Limbo Ioanna Chatzidimitriou (bio) The practice of literary self-translation, deeply rooted in the linguistic and cultural traditions and realities of the early modern period in Europe, is by definition synonymous with the bilingual and, by extension, the bicultural conditions. Although the post-Renaissance continental shift toward national languages and national literary canons forc…
Speaking Silence
Speaking Silence: Translation in Chahdortt Djavann’s La Muette Ioanna Chatzidimitriou Published in 2008 by Flammarion, Chahdortt Djavann’s novel La Muette tells the intertwined stories of the fifteen-year-old Fatemeh and her thirty-year-old paternal aunt, la muette—we are never told the muette’s name but we do learn that as a child she lost the ability, or desire, to speak after witnessing her father, a violent drug addict, beating her mother to …
Translingual Literature in French
Justice, Temporality, and the Martinican Carnival
This article examines Ladjablès, femme sauvage by Martinican playwright Daniely Francisque as a theatrical intervention into questions of justice, temporality, and colonial legacy in the Caribbean. Reworking the folkloric figure of Ladjablès, Francisque stages an encounter between a predatory man and a mythic woman during Carnival night, transforming a traditional cautionary tale into a meditation on colonial subjectivity, gendered violence, and …
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (2 works) · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Silence (2 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (2 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (1 works)