CODE-Switching and Polylingual Reality: An Aesthetics of Translation in Nancy Huston's Trois fois septembre and Danse noire.

This article examines how translingual author Nancy Huston represents polylingual reality and code-switching in her francograph novels Trois fois septembre (1989) and Danse noire (2013). Trois fois septembre employs a pseudotranslation aesthetic, presenting English letters translated aloud into French without direct text-level code-switching, while Danse noire explicitly incorporates multiple languages and dialects within the text, including intra-sentential code-switching and self-translation, reflecting the multilingual identities of its characters. The analysis draws on Meir Sternberg's model of translational mimesis to highlight differing strategies of representing multilingualism, from implicit translation to overt linguistic hybridity. Huston's work explores the fluidity of identity through language, portraying selfhood as dynamic and multifaceted within translingual and multicultural contexts.