Collaborative translation: an instrument for commercial success or neutralizing a feminist message?

Kang, Ji-Hae; Kim, Kyung Hye

doi:10.1080/0907676x.2019.1609534

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“…Only two articles have contributed to this topic. For instance, Kang and Kim (2020) looked at collaborative translation in a broader sense by discussing the distributor and viewers' role in the collaborative audiovisual translation. Whereas Brown (2018) examined collaborative translation in a narrower sense by tracing its development and collaborative partnership between male and female translators, emphasizing women's involvement.…”

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“…For instance, the mass media have usually targeted as "being careers of (gender) stereotypes in Western countries" (De Marco, 2016, p.319). Based on the review of previous studies, scholars have looked at gender issues in the translation of materials in mass media, specifically audiovisual materials such as film subtitling (Kang & Kim, 2020) and audiovisual advertising (Gimbert et al, 2016).…”

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Gender Issues in Translation Studies: A Systematic Literature Review

Zhu

2024

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This study aims to examine the prevalence and trend of research on gender issues in translation studies. Translation scholars have explored gender issues since the 1990s. However, a systematic literature review of the current trends and research foci in this field is lacking. Hence, the present paper is to fill in this gap based on the PRISMA framework.This study uses a systematic approach to review 73 articles on gender issues in recent translation studies. Web of Science and Scopus are the two databases used to retrieve data. All searches spanned from 2016 to 2020 and included journal articles published in English only. According to the publication year, the data are appraised and synthesized, research contexts, and research methods to suggest research trends. Research foci were also examined based on critical appraisal of the research objectives and categorized into five topics and seven subtopics. Findings show that the number of articles on translation and mediation of gender portrayals in literary translation has significantly increased over the last five years, especially in translating gender-stereotypical portrayals. Nonetheless, there is still room for improvement in several aspects. For instance, to put gender stereotypes in a theoretical framework to explore the gender cultural differences in translation. The study findings provide significant implications and directions for translation researchers to conduct interdisciplinary studies on gender issues and translation studies. Additionally, the research in the translation of gender stereotypical portrayals in literary texts will provide implications for research on the translation of gender stereotypes in non-literary texts.

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Section: Cultural Transfer Of Gendermentioning

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Section: Research Gapsmentioning

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Gender Issues in Translation Studies: A Systematic Literature Review

Zhu

2024

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“…Several studies have recently begun to address the readers as agents, demonstrating that they are not passive receivers but are rather active agents who propel the translators, distributors and publishers to respond to their voices (Kang & Kim, 2020;Lee, 2020). However, all the existing studies on translation agents' voices fall squarely in the category of target-oriented research, which reflects the idea of translation as "facts of target cultures" (Toury, 2012, p. 23).…”

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Who has the final say? English translation of online lockdown writing Wuhan Diary

Zheng

Shao

2021

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As a testimony to the lockdown life in Wuhan caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Fang Fang's Wuhan Diary received worldwide attention while triggering extensive controversies in China. Drawing on the concepts of agent and voice in translation studies, this article explores the contextual, paratextual and textual voices of translation agents in the English translation of Wuhan Diary (2020) and their power negotiations, to reveal who has the final say in positioning and rendering the text for an Anglophone readership. In so doing, the article shows that the author rather than the publisher plays a decisive role in producing the paratextual materials for the translation, and that the translator tend to employ the translation technique of omission to protect the author and himself. Furthermore, it finds that the author's request for the revision of such paratexts as the title and blurb, in conjunction with the translator's technique of omission in the translated text, boil down to responses to the critical voices from Chinese readers. Therefore, this article argues that the critical voices from Chinese readers have had the final say in the production and presentation of the English translation of Wuhan Diary.

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“…Mirella Agorni (2005) and Hilary Brown (2018) envisage the collaboration between women translators as distinctive and unusual forms of agency in the translation history. Ji-Hae Kang and Kyung Hye Kim (2019) point out that the collaborative subtitling of the female-led comedy Spy in Korea contains abundant unnecessary foul language that significantly degrades women, thus betraying the carefully devised feminist message in the original. Hiroko Furukawa (2018) investigates the relationship between the sexuality of the female main character and her language use in three Japanese translations of Lady Chatterley's Lover.…”

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Agencies in English Translations of Contemporary Chinese Women Writers: A Contextual, Paratextual and Textual Study

Jiang¹

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<p>The concept of agency has been frequently applied in translation studies (TS), especially in sociology of translation, but is still ill-defined, with no agreement on what it is precisely. This research discusses agency within a combined sociological and gendered framework, seeking to offer a systematic investigation of what agency entails in TS in order to better understand the intercultural communication of female voices from a non-hegemonic culture. In doing so, it questions a simplified understanding of agency as intermediary and argues that agency, as a theoretical tool with sociological implications, is always structural, relational and dynamic. Drawing upon ideas from Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory, I first construct a field of translating contemporary Chinese women writers into English from the 1980s to the 2010s, outline the general structure that governs such translation activities and provide a diachronic analysis of how translation agents operate within different translation discourses to promote women writers. Then I refer to Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory to identify two specific agencies: 1) a feminist agency that promotes the works of Zhang Jie (1937-) in the 1980s, when there was a juxtaposition of political and feminist translation discourses; and 2) a commercial agency enacted by the male director Zhang Yimou’s film adaptation The Flowers of War (2011) operating on the translation of Yan Geling’s Thirteen Hairpins of Nanjing (Jinling shisan chai 金陵十三钗), first published in 2005. In these two case studies, I trace two translation networks and investigate how their different agencies have either strengthened or weakened the female voices inscribed in the original texts. While contextualizing how agents operate in the translation process, I examine their agency through both paratextual and textual analysis, ultimately providing what I believe is a more comprehensive understanding of agency which can enhance the analytical and explanatory power of this theoretical concept in TS. The original contribution of this research to the academic discourse is three-fold. Theoretically and methodologically, it constructs an integrative framework that combines not only sociological approaches of TS, but also feminist translation studies and feminist translation criticism. Not only does it provide a field-oriented study of how women’s writing is translated and presented through different agencies, but it also uncovers strengthened feminist voices and recovers lost female voices in different translation discourses. Moreover, as a response to the ongoing intersectional and transnational turn in the study of women and translation, it goes beyond the gender-centric framework of the traditional feminist translation studies. By exploring other social and cultural specificities for Chinese women writers who enter the Anglo- American context, this research highlights the influences of political and commercial translation discourses, exposing the dilemma of translating women writers from non-hegemonic languages into English, whereby the translator or the writer either emphasizes a woman-centric perspective in the paratext or deletes references to women’s concerns in order to improve readability for a Western readership. Last but not least, this research fills a gap in existing scholarship on translating women writers into English, or what is called “the outward translation studies” currently prevalent in the Chinese academia, yielding insights into the global circulation and reception of contemporary Chinese literature.</p>

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Collaborative translation: an instrument for commercial success or neutralizing a feminist message?

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Gender Issues in Translation Studies: A Systematic Literature Review

Gender Issues in Translation Studies: A Systematic Literature Review

Who has the final say? English translation of online lockdown writing Wuhan Diary

Agencies in English Translations of Contemporary Chinese Women Writers: A Contextual, Paratextual and Textual Study

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