<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper is premised upon the American writer, Paul Bowles, and his journey into Morocco as a liminal topography. In his Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue the traveller-writer crosses borders, moving from the metropolis to the colony as a far-flung territory, a process which is faced with a sense of unrepresentability of the Other and its culture, leading to a sense of dislocation on the part of the traveller. The latter lives on the edge of two starkly different cultures, civilizations, religions and societies. His peregrination produces weird feelings which are associated with the liminal and the threshold, and which oscillate between the homely and unhomely, the ordinary and the mysterious.</p></abstract>

This paper is premised upon the American writer, Paul Bowles, and his journey into Morocco as a liminal topography. In his Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue the traveller-writer crosses borders, moving from the metropolis to the colony as a far-flung territory, a process which is faced with a sense of unrepresentability of the Other and its culture, leading to a sense of dislocation on the part of the traveller. The latter lives on the edge of two starkly different cultures, civilizations, religions and societies. His peregrination produces weird feelings which are associated with the liminal and the threshold, and which oscillate between the homely and unhomely, the ordinary and the mysterious.

Cultural Translation as Representation in Paul Bowles’ Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1957)

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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This paper is premised upon the American writer, Paul Bowles, and his journey into Morocco as a liminal topography. In his Their Heads are Green and their...

Cultural Translation as Representation in Paul Bowles’ Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1957)

Published Online: Nov 30, 2017

Page range: 37 - 48

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2017-0006

Keywords
cultural translation, identity, Otherness, Paul Bowles, representation, travel writing

© Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Cultural Translation as Representation in Paul Bowles’ Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1957)

Published Online: Nov 30, 2017

Page range: 37 - 48

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2017-0006

Keywordscultural translation, identity, Otherness, Paul Bowles, representation, travel writing

© Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
cultural translation, identity, Otherness, Paul Bowles, representation, travel writing