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Negotiating Translation and Transcreation of Children's Literature - From Alice to the Moomins (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Negotiating Translation and Transcreation of Children's Literature - From Alice to the Moomins (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: New Frontiers in Translation Studies
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This book offers fresh critical insights to the field of children's
literature translation studies by applying the concept of
transcreation, established in the creative industries of the
globalized world, to bring to the fore the transformative,
transgressional and creative aspects of rewriting for children and
young audiences. This socially situated and culturally dependent
practice involves ongoing complex negotiations between creativity
and normativity, balancing text-related problems and genre
conventions with readers' expectations, constraints imposed by
established, canonical translations and publishers' demands.
Focussing on the translator's strategies and decision-making
process, the book investigates phenomena where transcreation is
especially at play in children's literature, such as dual address,
ambiguity, nonsense, humour, play on words and other creative
language use; these also involve genre-specific requirements, for
example, rhyme and rhythm in poetry. The book draws on a wide range
of mostly Anglophone texts for children and their translations into
languages of limited diffusion to demonstrate the numerous ways in
which information, meaning and emotions are transferred to new
linguistic and cultural contexts. While focussing mostly on
interlingual transfer, the volume analyses a variety of translation
types from established, canonical renditions by celebrity
translators to non-professional translations and intralingual
rewritings. It also examines iconotextual dynamics of text and
image. The book employs a number of innovative methodologies, from
cognitive linguistics and ethnolinguistics to semiotics and
autoethnographic approaches, going beyond text analysis to include
empirical research on children's reactions to translation
strategies. Highlighting the complex dynamics at work in the
process of transcreating for children, this volume is essential
reading for students and researchers in translation studies,
children's fiction and adaptation studies.
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