METAPHORS IN DIALOGUE: FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICS, TRANSLATORS AND WRITERS

This article seeks to investigate the changing perception of the term “translation ” in feminist TS thanks to a continuous dialogue with other fields such as, feminist literary criticism, post-structuralism, postcolonial studies and cultural studies that have bor-rowed and utilised the notion of translation. “Translation ” has become a “travelling concept ” for feminist scholars who have utilized it in a metaphorical way for a femi-nist critique of language and ideology. The essay proposes a new approach to feminist translation studies from an interdisciplinary perspective that takes into account key-concepts and figurative language in different feminisms in dialogue. Metaphors of translation and translators have influenced and have been influenced by other fields of research in a fruitful interaction among disciplines thanks to a convergence of the topics and issues at stake. A new rhetoric has been created for translation and transla-tors, a rhetoric born from an interaction with other feminist theories that gave birth to an enriching dialogue among disparate women’s voices. Resume