“Kiss Me on the Lips, for I Love You” Over A Century of Heterosexism in the Spanish Translation of Oscar Wilde

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sol Rojas-Lizana ◽  
Laura Tolton ◽  
Emily Hannah
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Spanish Translation ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
The Times ◽  
Cultural Choices ◽  
Critical Translation

The translation of sexuality has proven to be challenging throughout the times due to the dominant mores at the time of translation. Framed within Critical Translation Studies, this article examines cases of heterosexist manipulation in the Spanish translation of “The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wilde. It proposes that Wilde’s specific intent in using the fairy tale genre is not transmitted in any Spanish version of the story, from its first translation in 1900 to date (2018). We show that the translations manipulate both grammatical gender and sexuality in such a way that one of the messages of the story, the value of homosexual love, is omitted entirely to become the standard and conventional view of sexuality that dominates contemporary Western tradition. The article indicates the linguistic, stylistic and cultural choices that should be considered for a new translation of the story.

Manipulación del género gramatical y sexual en la traducción española de un cuento de Oscar Wilde

Babel ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-331
Author(s):  
Isolda Rojas-Lizana ◽  
Emily Hannah
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Jorge Luis Borges ◽  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
First Century ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Spanish Translation ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
Sex And Sexuality

Translation as a cultural process can be used in various ways to suppress or promote ideologies. Within the framework of Critical Studies in Translation, this article examines the presence of the phenomenon of manipulation; that is, deliberate alteration of central topics and messages for ideological purposes, in the Spanish translation of the story The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde. It proposes that Wilde’s specific intent in using the fairy tale genre to battle heterosexism (the belief that heterosexuality is the only norm) is not transmitted in any of the Spanish versions of the story, since its English publication in 1888 to the twenty-first century.<p> The analysis proves that all twelve translations of the story found, included the famous translation by Jorge Luis Borges in 1910, manipulate the sex and sexuality of the characters by taking advantage of the commonly perceived ambiguities between the grammatical and cultural gender in Spanish. This is done in such a way that one of the messages of the story, the redemption of homosexual love and its acceptance by God, is omitted entirely to become, and promote, the standard and conventional view of sexuality that dominates contemporary Western tradition. The article finishes by pointing out the linguistic choices that need to be considered for a new translation of the story and provides the translation of a passage as an example.<p>

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Farfan
Keyword(s):  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Gender And Sexuality

A recurrent figure throughout this book, Oscar Wilde both exemplified and generated a connection between queerness and modernism that was enacted in and through performance. In this brief epilogue, Wilde’s contention that “what is termed Sin is an essential element of progress” serves to encapsulate how, as illustrated in the preceding chapters, queer modernist performance was a subversive yet insufficiently recognized aspect of modernism. Queer modernist performance thus clarifies that modernism, as Susan Stanford Friedman has argued, was a domain within modernity that effected change while at the same time intersecting with other domains of change, in this instance gender and sexuality.

The ACTRES parallel corpus: an English–Spanish translation corpus

Corpora ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlén Izquierdo ◽  
Knut Hofland ◽  
Øystein Reigem
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Spanish Translation ◽  
Parallel Corpus ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
The University

This paper describes the compilation of the ACTRES Parallel Corpus, an English–Spanish translation corpus built at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of León (Spain) by the ACTRES research group. The computerisation of the corpus was carried out in collaboration with Knut Hofland and Øystein Reigem, from the Department of Culture, Language and Information Technology, Aksis, at the UNIFOB/University of Bergen (Norway). The corpus is conceived as a powerful tool for cross-linguistic research in the fields of Contrastive Analysis and Descriptive Translation Studies. It was the need to bridge the gap between these disciplines and to extend applications that encouraged the building of a parallel corpus as a suitable tool to achieve these goals. This paper focusses on the practical aspects of building the corpus. A brief account of the research which prompted this endeavour precedes the description of this process. 4 4 This paper is an account of the building of the ACTRES Parallel Corpus, so no empirical results from research done on the basis of the corpus are reported here. Concerning new insights drawn from the actual use of P-ACTRES in English–Spanish translation and contrastive projects, there is an extended bibliography at: http://actres.unileon.es/

MEMBANGUN KEPRIBADIAN ANAK DENGAN DONGENG

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Ida Vera Sophya
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Childhood Environment ◽  
Early Childhood Environment ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sophisticated Technology

<p>Today, we can see that the negligence of parents and early childhood’s<br />teachers could not keep pace with the times. This can be seen from the<br />development of increasingly sophisticated technology and the rise of children’s<br />television programs become more interested. Given this phenomenon, the<br />parents and educators particularly in early childhood environment, should<br />be flashback while they are still at an early age. The existence of storytelling<br />activities tend to have waned since eroded by age and sophisticated era. Though<br />keep in mind that there are many benefits by giving a fairy tale to children.<br />Children’s tales are very useful for being able to glue the relationship between<br />parents and their children, as well as helping to optimize the development of<br />children’s psychological and emotional intelligence. The examples of fairy tales<br />that can be given to children is a tale of local knowledge that can be drawn<br />from the local legends and the unique stories.</p>

scholarly journals Standardisation in translated language

2021 ◽  
pp. 178-209
Author(s):  
María Victoria Valencia Giraldo
Keyword(s):  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Spanish Translation ◽  
Picture Of Dorian Gray ◽  
Colombian Spanish ◽  
The Law ◽  
Dorian Gray

The law of growing standardisation (Toury 1995) appears to be particularly at play in diatopy, and more specifically in the case of transnational languages. Some studies have revealed the tendency to standardise the diatopic varieties of Spanish in translated language (Corpas Pastor 2015a, 2015b, 2017, 2018). However, to our knowledge, no work has studied this tendency in the Spanish translations of a literary work. This paper focuses on verb + noun (object) collocations of Spanish translations of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Two different varieties have been chosen (Peninsular and Colombian Spanish). The techniques used to translate this type of collocations in both Spanish translations will be analysed. Further, the diatopic distribution of these collocations will be studied by means of large corpora. Based on the results, it is argued that the Colombian Spanish translation is actually closer to general or standard Spanish than to the variety of this country.

scholarly journals «I often thought if it could not be dissolved, it could only with life be extirpated»: a translemic analysis and Spanish translation of Frances Burney’s Letter from Frances Burney to her sister Esther about her mastectomy without anaesthetic, 1812

Feminismo/s ◽  
2022 ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Carmen María Fernández Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
British Library ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Frances Burney ◽  
Spanish Translation ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Real Lesson ◽  
British Novelists ◽  
The Impact

Frances Burney (1752-1840) was one of the most influential eighteenth-century British novelists. Apart from the novel, Burney also cultivated the theatre and she wrote texts of a marked political nature on the French Revolution, a fact that is not so well– known by the general public. This article is inscribed within the framework of gender studies and the so-called Burney Studies and aims to analyze Letter from Frances Burney to Her Sister Esther About her Mastectomy Without Anaesthetic, 1812. By its subject, the document is an account of current interest for both medicine and feminism. Here Letter Here Letter is studied from the perspective of translation studies, specifically taking Itamar Even-Zohar’s theory of literary polisystems and various translation strategies as a methodological reference. We will examine the configuration of the key elements of Even-Zohar’s approach and various translation strategies as a methodological reference in this text which we will approach translation studies as a pathography, insisting on the identification between female subject and writing, Burney’s courage in confronting the disease and the particular relationship she establishes with the participants in the story and the impact that disease has on those around and helping her. Finally, the Spanish translation of Letter is offered, so Spanish-speaking readers have access to this document recently digitized by The British Library. Letter is a chronicle of pain, but also of courage and a real lesson in the intimate relationship between women and writing that was always so important to Burney. This study also means a re-vision of the writer that is far from what we could have until now.

READDRESSING TRANSLATION STRATEGY IN LITERARY TRANSLATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (31) ◽  
pp. 148-163
Author(s):  
Natalya Zhmayeva ◽  
Iaroslav Petrunenko
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Translation Strategy ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Compensation Technique

Modern translation studies which are of descriptive nature mainly presuppose the opportunity of altering the function of the source text in translation, reconstruction of sense and structure in correspondence with the aim of translation. The investigation has been carried out in the framework of the communicativefunctional approach to translation which accounts for the entire spectrum of linguistic and extra linguistic factors influencing translation in the broad sense. This fact proves the relevance of the article. The translations of both narrations intended for the children’s audience exclusively conform to the ideology of the children’s fiction aimed at socialization and attraction of young addressees. It results in the loss of the worldview reflection by the originals and focusing on reproducing their fairy–tale plots. The applied readdressing translation strategy has been implemented by the following tactics: the tactic of relevant information rendering, the tactic of pragmatic adaptation of the source text, the tactic of stylistic features rendering, the tactic of the source text formal and structural features rendering. Common operations for the applied tactics have proved to be as following: search for a variant equivalent, omission, restructuring and compensation. The compensation technique has turned out to be the most universal operation within the applied translation tactics. This fact can be explained by the complex nature of transformations the source text is subjected to, the need to omit, rearrange amounts of information and to preserve the chosen genre along with its adaptation for the potential addressee.

El compromiso social de Jean-Claude Izzo en Le Soleil des mourants

Babel ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soledad Díaz Alarcón
Keyword(s):  
Translation Studies ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Spanish Translation ◽  
Communicative Intention ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract Jean-Claude Izzo, an author committed to reality, recreates in his work Le Soleil des mourants the life of an indigent condemned to exclusion and loneliness. His critique also extends to contemporary society, both urban and dehumanized, and to the institutions and organisms that govern it, incapable of coping with social stigmas. This paper aims to disentangle, through a semantic-stylistic analysis, the homeless figure who stands as the cornerstone around which the story revolves. This paper also tries to identify the textual, linguistic, and cultural singularities that, from a translation studies approach, are regarded as specific translation challenges in this novel. This study puts forth a proposal for the Spanish translation of a selection of passages that support our arguments. The translation decisions are made according to the concept of communicative equivalence (Wotjak 2015) and to the taxonomy of techniques compiled by Hurtado Albir (2008, 269–271). The paper concludes that the concept of communicative equivalence has become a relevant methodology for the translation of Le Soleil des mourants, as it enables the translator to render the denotative elements of the message, the connotative and expressive use of the language, and the author’s communicative intention.

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