Multilingual encounters in the contact zone. The transnational film adaptations of Tabucchi’s Dama de Porto Pim and Nocturne indien

Wren-Owens, Liz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1053-4482 2020. Multilingual encounters in the contact zone. The transnational film adaptations of Tabucchi’s Dama de Porto Pim and Nocturne indien. Italian Studies 75 (4) , pp. 487-501. 10.1080/00751634.2020.1820820

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Abstract

The article focuses on international, multilingual film adaptations of Antonio Tabucchi’s writing. It uses two case studies, Toni Salgot’s 2001 Spanish-language Dama de Porto Pim and Alain Corneau’s 1989 French-language Nocturne indien, to suggest that the film adaptations significantly emphasise issues of multilingualism and transnational encounter. It focuses on the way in which the adaptations focus on struggles between European cultural and linguistic identities, played out in non-European spaces, with the power struggles of wartime Europe of particular importance. The article proposes a modified version of Louise Pratt’s ‘contact zone’ as a means of thinking through these encounters, in which struggles between competing European linguistic, historical, and cultural identities are played out in non-European spaces, against a backdrop of imperial ‘remnants’. The article draws on Gérard Genette’s concept of ‘hypertextuality’ as a way of highlighting the multileveled process of rewriting that characterises film adaptation, especially adaptations of translated texts.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Modern Languages
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	0075-1634
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	8 September 2020
Date of Acceptance:	4 December 2019
Last Modified:	22 Nov 2024 21:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/134743

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