Power And Ideology In Barks' Translations Of Rumi's Poetry
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Date
2017-01
Authors
Abbaspour, Bita Naghmen
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
Translation of ideology and its relation to power is one of the main concerns
of the contemporary studies of the discipline of translation studies. Accordingly the
current study explored translator’s ideological manipulative strategies, which were
imposed on to the text backdrop by the target socio-cultural context. The study
employed CDA as its theoretical and analytical tool. As in ideological explorations
of translation, analyzing merely the text cannot provide a comprehensive perspective;
thus, the present study chose both text and context as its discourse. To do so textual
and contextual data were collected and analyzed separately in micro (textual) and
macro (contextual) levels through the lens of CDA. At the macro level the related
socio-cultural trends of the target language were explored to illustrate the contextual
background of these translations. At the micro level, the study by employing a CDA
base model, looked at the details of strategies that the translator applied in order to
ideologically recontextualize the text. Here the intertextuality, lexical choices,
paratextual and semiotic materials were analyzed thoroughly. The findings of both
micro and macro analysis revealed that the translator following the target sociocultural
context and with a view to attracting more readership, brutally distorted and
misrepresented the original text. In this process, by de-Islamizing the original text the
translator completely recreated a new image of the original author in the target
society and deprived him of his own voice to be heard.
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Power and ideology in Barks' translations , of Rumi's poetry