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MANIPULATION AND CENSORSHIP IN THE LITERARY TRANSLATION: RUSSIAN CONTEXT

V. Razumovskaya, N. Kilmovich

First published: 2017https://doi.org/10.5593/SGEMSOCIAL2017/HB61/S11.26View metrics

Abstract

The article deals with one of the eternal issues of the theory and practice of literary translation: “What happens to a literary original after it has been translated?” The answer to this question could be probably found through interdisciplinary approach which takes into consideration not only exclusively translation categories and literary translation traditions but also broad literary, cultural and political contexts of the target text. The subject of the present research is the experience and results of foreign fiction translations into Russian (mostly in the 20th century). The research material is predominantly analyzed by the means of comparative and descriptive methods using the concepts of re-writing, manipulation (mostly its conscious type) and censorship. The particular attention is paid to ideological and religious impact on literary translators’ creative activity. Being strongly affected by the ideology, literary translators made numerous alterations to the secondary (translated) texts in comparison with their original versions. Detailed comparative study of source and target texts reveals the most common strategies (omission and substitution) of ideological manipulation in literary translation, used by translators of Soviet Russia to comply with the requirements set by institutional censorship.

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Title
MANIPULATION AND CENSORSHIP IN THE LITERARY TRANSLATION: RUSSIAN CONTEXT
Authors
V. Razumovskaya, N. Kilmovich
Proceedings
References: 4th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts SGEM2017, www.sgemvienna.org, SGEM2017 Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-619-7105-97-1 / ISSN 2367-5659, March 28-31, Book6, Vol.1, 207-214 pp, DOI:10.5593/SGE
Publisher
STEF92 Technology
Year
2017
Pages
207-214
SWS Citekey
Razumovskaya201711207214
ISSN
2367-5659
ISBN
978-619-7105-97-1
Language
en
Publication type
Proceedings Paper
Keywords
literary translationmanipulationcensorshipRussia
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