Translation and Non-translation Strategies in Suzette Mayr’s The Widows 
Focusing on the perspective of a feminist immigration writing and “the new Canadian literature”, I analyze the linguistic and narrative strategies that the Alberta writer Suzette Mayr uses in her novel The Widows (1998) to translate the process of identity negotiation and cultural hybridization, which her German characters have to face in Canada. Through this, she creates a new form of writing by conflating the phenomena of cross-linguistic and cross-cultural encounters. In Mayr’s text, translation (in the proper and metaphorical sense) plays a fundamental role and becomes “an element of textual dynamics”, as Sherry Simon suggests in Le Trafic des langues (1994). In addition, my translation of The Widows into French enables me to point out the specific translation problems raised by an immigrant perspective.