By Sherry Simon
ISBN-10: 0203202899
ISBN-13: 9780203202890
ISBN-10: 0415115353
ISBN-13: 9780415115353
ISBN-10: 0415115361
ISBN-13: 9780415115360
Gender in Translation is a broad-ranging, inventive and full of life examine feminist matters surrounding translation experiences. scholars and academics of translation experiences, linguistics, gender reports and women's stories will locate this extraordinary paintings beneficial and thought-provoking examining. Sherry Simon argues that translation of feminist texts - with the intention to selling feminist views - is a cultural intervention, trying to create new cultural meanings and produce approximately social swap. She takes an in depth examine particular matters which come with: the heritage of feminist theories of language and translation stories; linguistic concerns, together with a serious exam of the paintings of Luce Irigaray; a glance at ladies translators via heritage, from the Renaissance to the 20 th century; feminist translations of the Bible; an research of the ways that French feminist texts similar to De Beauvoir's the second one intercourse were translated into English.
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19), and in the recreation of semantic ambiguity in English. “Pour écrire, rêver est un accessoire” (21) becomes “Dreaming is an accessory to writ(h)ing” (17). “Chaque fois que l’espace me manque a l’horizon, la bouche s’entrouvre, la langue trouve l’ouverture” (26) becomes “Each time I lack space on the her/i/zon, my mouth opens, the tongue finds an opening, (her eye zone)” (22). “La mère recouvrant la TAKING GENDERED POSITIONS IN TRANSLATION THEORY 25 mer comme une parfaite synthèse” (29), becomes “(Mère) She covering (mer) sea like a perfect synthesis” (23).
There is TAKING GENDERED POSITIONS IN TRANSLATION THEORY 31 often a reductive process in play when local, regional languages are turned into versions of international idioms like English. We have tried, therefore, in the translations (not always successfully) to strain against the reductive and often stereo-typical homogenization involved in this process. We preferred translations that did not domesticate the work either into a pan-Indian or into a “universalist” mode, but demanded of the reader too a translation of herself into another sociohistorical ethos.
They have restored the voice of characters whose ability to communicate was constrained by a passage through the imperial language. Code-switching becomes a way of inscribing multiplicity in a text governed by universalizing modes of representation. The positions of the translators are mapped out perhaps only too explicitly in relation to both historical and contemporary understandings of cultural difference. In opting for a more complex representation of language itself than is present in the original text, they call attention to their own intervention in it.
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