Post-socialist translation practices : ideological struggle in children's literature / Nike K. Pokorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pokorn, Nike K. (Nike Kocijančič)

Series:

Benjamins Translation Library

Benjamins translation library, 0929-7316 ; v. 103

Benjamins Translation Library ; 103

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--Political aspects.

Translating and interpreting.

Children's literature--Translations--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

National socialism and literature.

Communism and literature.

Literature and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book Post-Socialist Translation Practices explores how Communism and Socialism, through their hegemonic pressure, found expression in translation practice from the moment of Socialist revolution to the present day. Based on extensive archival research in the archives of the Communist Party and on the interviews with translators and editors of the period the book attempts to outline the typical and defining features of the Socialist translatorial behaviour by re-reading more than 200 translations of children's literature and juvenile fiction published in the Socialist Federal Republi

Contents:

Post-Socialist Translation Practices; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; The voice of the East: Towards a Post-Socialist Translation Studies?; Eclectic and paradoxical frameworks; The historical background as reflected in translations; From mediaeval times to Austria-Hungary; The interwar period; The Second World War; The early post-war period; Yugoslav Communists and the Church; The organisation of the Slovene and Yugoslav Communist Parties; Socialist publishing houses; From self-management to independence; Yugoslav wars and their consequences

The export of Slovene children's literatureThe corpus of retranslated texts; Stylistic reasons and problematic translators; Re-translations for stylistic and linguistic reasons; The Jungle Books; Re-translations triggered by "problematic" and unacceptable translators; Pinocchio; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Pünktchen und Anton; Fairy tales without unhealthy additions; Cinderella; Snow-White and Rose-Red; Andersen's Little Match Girl; Children's best-sellers; Bambi; Winnetou; The Story and the Death of Kleki-petra; Ave Maria; Heidi; Treasure Island; Adapted literature for adults

Robinson CrusoeMichel Strogoff; Translations in Slovene primary school textbooks and readers; Translation has always been a political matter; The results of the analysis; Censorial mechanisms; The interviews; Self-Censorship; Avoidance of sanctions; Internalisation of ideological dictates; Conscious support for Communist ideology; The illusion of non-interference; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Archival records; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

ISBN:

9781283895354

1283895358

9789027273048

9027273049

OCLC:

815382773