The Translator’s Discourse and Voice in Chimamanda N. Adichie’s "Half of a Yellow Sun"
This paper aims at exploring the nature of the Translator’s discursive presence (Hermans, 1996; Schiavi, 1996; Suchet, 2013) in the novel "Half of a Yellow Sun" (2006) by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda N. Adichie (1977—). In this respect, we will focus our analysis on the examination of th...
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| Acceso en línea: | http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/160097 |
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| Sumario: | This paper aims at exploring the nature of the Translator’s discursive presence (Hermans, 1996; Schiavi, 1996; Suchet, 2013) in the novel "Half of a Yellow Sun" (2006) by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda N. Adichie (1977—). In this respect, we will focus our analysis on the examination of the translation procedures intervening in the rendering of the “original” postcolonial hybrid text into the translated Spanish version carried out by Laura Rins Calahorra (2014). Accordingly, we will approach the analysis of the translator’s discourse and voice as a discursive enunciative subject in connection with the (re-)configuration of the Author discursive image or "ethos" of the original. To this end, on a theoretical level and within the field of discourse studies, we will examine Amossy’s rhetorical model (1999, 2001, 2009, 2012) which draws on the idea of stereotypes or pre-existing schemes agreed upon by members of a particular community as having a crucial role in the argumentative construction of the "ethos". Finally, on the analytical level, we seek to analyze instances of (self-)translation in the “original” text (Ashcroft et al., [1989] 2002; Tymoczko, 1999; Spoturno, [2010] 2014) which exhibit forms of interlingual heterogeneity (mainly in proverbs, language change and switch of code) as well as evaluate how these forms are rendered into Spanish by the translator in discourse. Thus, the ultimate aim is to assess if the Translator’s choices or shifts tend to the homogeneity or heterogeneity of the “original” text (van Leuven-Zwart, 1989; 1990) both on the micro and macrostructural level. |
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