Anarchism, Antirepresentationalism and the Translation Paradigm
Anarchism, Antirepresentationalism and the Translation Paradigm

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at discussing translation as a political and ethical paradigm, as proposed by Bogdan Ghiu and Lawrence Venuti, in the broader context of comparative literature’s contrarian turn with the Bernheimer and the Saussy reports, as well as in conjunction with anarchism’s minor literary tradition (in the deleuzian sense). I argue that the translation paradigm and the non-vanguardist anarchist aesthetic are stemming from the same legacy of freedom, both formulating their basic ethical, political and aesthetical assumptions in the context of the crisis of representation, and both encountering the same practical and theoretical difficulties.The analysis will have two main focuses: one will examine the link between translation and the contrarian turn of comparative literature; and the second one will read the minoritizing model of translation through the anarchist antirepresentationalist ethic and aesthetic, in order to illustrate their convergence as alternative, radical lines of thought.

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