Description

• Title:
  Translator: an author or a guide? Letters from an Other by Lise Gauvin beyond the stereotype
• Creator:
  Warmuzińska-Rogóż, Joanna
• Description:
  The article aims to present the particularities of the English translation of Lise Gauvin’s novel Lettres d’une autre by a Canadian feminist translator, Suzanne de LotbinièreHarwood. The purpose of the translation was to make the Quebec culture closer to the English speaking Canadians. Moreover, de Lotbinière-Harwood intended to emphasize feminist issues. Indubitably, such a project goes beyond the stereotypical function of translation as the translator herself is clearly visible in the text. The specificity of the de Lotbinière-Harwood’s translation encourages the reflection on the problematic border between a translation sensu stricto and a translation being at the same time some kind of explanation. The article seeks to answer to the following questions: is a literary translator “only” a transmitter of meanings invented by the author or a guide in the unknown world? Is he also a full-fledged author? In addition, the article considers how far a translator is allowed to be visible in a text, in particular, if he aims to explain culture.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Romanica Silesiana
• Date:
  2021.03.31
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  French
• Source:
  Romanica Silesiana; Vol. 16 No. 2 (2019): Stéréotypes, idées reçues et lieux communs dans les littératures d'expression française; 306-318;
  Romanica Silesiana; Vol. 16 Núm. 2 (2019): Stéréotypes, idées reçues et lieux communs dans les littératures d'expression française; 306-318;
  Romanica Silesiana; Vol. 16 No 2 (2019): Stéréotypes, idées reçues et lieux communs dans les littératures d'expression française; 306-318;
  Romanica Silesiana; V. 16 N. 2 (2019): Stéréotypes, idées reçues et lieux communs dans les littératures d'expression française; 306-318;
  Romanica Silesiana; Tom 16 Nr 2 (2019): Stéréotypes, idées reçues et lieux communs dans les littératures d'expression française; 306-318;
  2353-9887;
  1898-2433
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press
• Relation: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RS/article/view/11737/9178
• Subject:
  translator;
  stereotype;
  feminist translation;
  Nicole Brossard
• Identifier: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RS/article/view/11737
• Data provider:
  Czasopisma Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text