scholarly journals Culture-Specific Items’ Translation Into Lithuanian: “One Hundred Years of Solitude” By Gabriel García Márquez

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-209
Author(s):  
Gabija Leonavičiūtė ◽  
Dovilė Kuzminskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Translation Strategies

Summary Growing interest in Spanish-speaking countries in Lithuania leads to the increased number of translations of Spanish and Latin American literature. Therefore, it is important to analyse translations from Spanish into Lithuanian and vice versa to improve the quality of translation work. One of the most difficult elements to translate are culture-specific items that reveal cultural uniqueness. The novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez contains many culture-specific items related to Colombia, that could be difficult to translate. This article aims to analyse and compare translation strategies of culture-specific items from Spanish into Lithuanian, which were used in 1972 by Elena Treinienė and in 2017 by Valdas V. Petrauskas, to translate the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. Firstly, this article defines the concepts of cultural elements and culture-specific items. It also discusses the classification of culture-specific items based on the works of Eugene Nida, Peter Newmark, Sergej Vlahov, Sider Florin and Laura Santamaria Guinot. Furthermore, this article describes translation strategies of culture-specific items emphasized by Amparo Hurtado Albir, Eirlys Davies, Georges L. Bastin and Pekka Kujamäki. In this research, culture-specific items are counted and described using Santamaria Guinot’s classification, which allows to claim that there are 69 different culture-specific items in “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and they are reflected by 252 examples in the text. These culture-specific items are related with concepts of ecology, social structures, cultural institutions, social universe and material culture. The most common ones are culture-specific items from the category of ‘material culture’. The results of the research allow distinguishing six translation strategies, used in different frequency: transcription, equivalence of situations, actualisation, usage of exoticism, extension and explication, and omission. Both Lithuanian translators Treinienė and Petrauskas mainly used strategies of transcription and equivalence of situations. The analysis of the translation of culture-specific items was performed using the methods of quantitative, comparative, and descriptive translation analysis.

scholarly journals Myth and Anthropogony in Latin American Literature

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Manuel Losada
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Miguel Angel Asturias ◽  
Collective Imagination ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Mayan Civilization

In Mayan civilization, collective imagination about the origin of human beings follows its own patterns. Quichean mythology tells of the hazardous process that, after various failed attempts, ended in the creation of first human beings from corn. Men of Maize (Hombre de maíz), by Miguel Ángel Asturias (1949), allows us to delve into this myth of anthropogony: the fight between indigenous people and exploiters of the land is presented as a metaphor for those difficult beginnings and for the commercial corruption of a particularly symbolic food. This article highlights two important debates: that of Deféric and Elda, and that of Hilario Sacayón and Ramona Corzantes; both allow to investigate the mythical themes of magic and nahual, indispensable in the construction of a great central myth in the novel: the creation of man.

scholarly journals Pós-modernidade e pós-colonialidade na literatura latino-americana: o trágico na Crônica de uma morte anunciada, de Gabriel García Márquez

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Fatima Sabrina Rosa ◽  
Barbara Rosa
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Fixed Points ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
Latin American Fiction ◽  
Literary Writing ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Way

Resumo: Este ensaio tem por objetivo utilizar perspectivas discutidas em torno das teorias pós-modernas e pós-coloniais como aporte para estabelecer aproximações com a literatura latino-americana, especificamente, com a obra Crônica de uma morte anunciada, do colombiano Gabriel García Márquez. Essa proposta de aproximação surge da impressão causada pela obra no leitor, denotando traços do que poderia ser visto como uma perspectiva pós-moderna e pós-colonial sobre a história e sobre a própria escrita literária. Esses caminhos da questão “pós” podem ser percebidos em uma sensibilidade trágica, que alinha o texto aos debates pós-modernos, bem como na forma como o autor hibridiza a narrativa ao colocar na mesma “persona”, narrador, personagem e autor. As chamadas “histórias menores”, isto é, discussões acerca de temas importantes da crítica pós-colonial também estão presentes, em referências tangenciais à raça, territorialidade e gênero. Além dessas circunscrições mais visíveis sobre o “pós” na estrutura da crônica, este texto é uma tentativa de decodificar alguns símbolos utilizados pelo autor para ressignificar e deslocar certos pontos fixos da ficção e da história latino-americana.Palavras-chave: literatura latino-americana; trágico; pós-modernidade e pós-colonialidade.Abstract: This essay aims to use perspectives discussed on postmodern and postcolonial theories as a contribution to establish approximations with the Latin American literature, specifically with the Chronicle of a Death Foretold by the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez. This proposal of approximation arises from the impression that the García Márquez’ work provokes in the reader, denoting traces of what could be seen as a postmodern and postcolonial perspective on history and on literary writing itself. These paths of the “post” theory can be perceived in a tragic sensibility, which aligns the text to postmodern debates, as well as in the way the author hybridizes the narrative by placing the narrator, character and author in the same person. Also present in the book are the so-called “minor stories,” that is, discussions about the central postcolonial critique matters, such as issues about race, territoriality, and gender. In addition to these more visible circumscriptions about the “post” in the structure of the Chronicle, this text is an attempt to decode some symbols used by the author to resignify and dislocate certain fixed points of Latin American fiction and history.Keywords: Latin American literature; tragic; post-modernity and post-coloniality.

Between Fiction and History in the Spanish Pacific

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole D. Legnani
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Novel

Chapter Three of The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez, attributed to the Novohispanic polymath Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora but widely believed to be based on a true account, tells the tale of the title character’s captivity among English pirates, who supposedly torture him for the information they need to execute savage raids on Spanish positions in the Philippines, and then plunder their way from Cambodia to Madagascar and Brazil. Nicole Legnani situates the excerpt in the larger story told by the novel as a whole and discusses the novel’s place in the broader context of colonial Latin American literature and its transpacific commitments.

The Novel of Violence in Latin American Literature

2016 ◽  
pp. 141-157
Author(s):  
José-Vicente Tavares-dos-Santos ◽  
Enio Passiani ◽  
Julio Souto Salom
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
The Novel

scholarly journals The Good Life: Rodolfo Fogwill’s La introducción

Anclajes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Fermín A. Rodríguez ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Stability ◽  
And Control

The Latin American literature of the last thirty years is crossed by displacement of bodies through plots that do not have the stability of the social and cultural borders that shape the nation-state. In a society where the ideal of well-being, happiness and longevity acquires a political status, Rodolfo Fogwill’s latest novel, La introducción (2016) constitutes a formal inquiry into the new spatializations of culture and new mechanisms of subjectivation and control that emerge in the novel of our turn of the century as indexes of transformations of power and forms of exploitation without which 24/7 capitalism could not function.

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