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Abstract
This article presents a contrastive analysis of two novels by African postcolonial female authors and their respective translations. Both novels are written in hybrid languages, African in their background and Europeanized in their form, namely: the French of Senegalese author Ken Bugul and the English of Nigerian author Buchi Emecheta. The departing point of this study is the premise established in postcolonial studies affirming that hybrid postcolonial texts have significantly specific language features and numerous cultural references (many of them in vernacular languages such as Wolof or Igbo) that represent a stumbling block to their translation practice. In our hypothesis, a single trend or strategy cannot be applied, but rather a balance between the different translational possibilities must be sought. From a womanist perspective, we will illustrate fragments of these works in order to analyse how the hybrid language and the African identity are exposed. Likewise, we will study the translational treatment that certain illustrative fragments of these African women’s writings have experienced towards Spanish.




