Translation and celebrity: The translation strategies of Haruki Murakami and their implications for the visibility paradigm

Hadley, James; Akashi, Motoko

doi:10.1080/0907676x.2014.998688

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“…Besides studies that focus on motive or purpose that tend to be various (Yu, 2010;Abdolmaleki, 2018;Al-Mahrooqi & Denman, 2016;Ashcroft, 2014), that literary practice, in general, can also show certain cultural conditions. They can be seen from studies on translators' role, translation institutions, government policy, also strategies and impacts given by literary agents' practice (Tekgül, 2016;Harding, 2014;Zahrawi, 2018;Saito, 2015;Hadley & Akashi, 2015;Xu, 2012;Yuan, 2018;Bai, 2009;Solum, 2018;Haroon, 2017;Lygo, 2016;Daldeniz, 2010;Milani, 2017;Hanna, 2005Hanna, & 2009.…”

Section: Scientificmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In her study, Dewi shows that most translation studies developed in Indonesia only focus on the text, and the investigation of the literary translation process and its agents have not attracted the Some scholars have conducted studies on agents' strategies in translated literary production. Among many of them, there are Daldeniz (2010), Xu (2012), Hadley and Akashi (2015), and Zahrawi (2018). Each study focuses on agents such as the translator, publisher, and literary man.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Understanding How They Work: The Agents’ Strategies in Producing Indonesian-English Literary Translation

Kardiansyah

Salam²,

Saktiningrum³

2023

j.lang.lit.

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This article contains a study on Yogyakarta literary agents’ strategies in producing a translated work from Indonesian into English (Indonesian-English literary work) entitled “Pilgrimage in the Land of Java”. Due to the development of literary studies based on the practice of its agents, this study aims to understand more the pattern and vision of agents in producing translated literary work in a particular context. In this case, the agents are a poet Iman Budhi Santosa, an indie publisher Interlude, and a translator Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang. This study adopts the Bourdieusian concept of strategy in cultural production as the framework of thought. Meanwhile, interview and document selection are two primary techniques to collect data for this qualitative research. This study reveals the strategies implemented by the three primary agents during the production of “Pilgrimage in the Land of Java”. Although running on the same track, it turns out that each of them had specific strategies based on the role that they possessed during the production. This study also discloses the significance of social capital in translation practice.

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Section: Scientificmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Scientificmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding How They Work: The Agents’ Strategies in Producing Indonesian-English Literary Translation

Kardiansyah

Salam²,

Saktiningrum³

2023

j.lang.lit.

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“…In the early stage of his career, however, Murakami's translational language was occasionally criticized by Japanese critics, but criticisms "encouraged his self-assurance as 'an independent writer named Haruki Murakami'" (Nihei, 2016, p. 385). Murakami's writing style in Japanese, therefore, is unique or "idiosyncratic" (Akashi, 2018;Hadley & Akashi, 2015) and characterized by a foreignized (or westernized) flavor due to the English translational style or hon'yakuchō (Kazamaru, 2006) ["translationese tone" (Strecher, 2014)].…”

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“…However, his visibility as a translator is not due to his adherence to foreignization. Hadley and Akashi (2015) caution not to assume that "this chosen translation strategy is the source of Murakami's high prominence in Japan" (p. 470).…”

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Self-Back-Translation by Haruki Murakami: A Self-Translator’s Perspective

Takahashi

2022

JTLS

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Self-back-translation is an uncommon practice in which a bilingual author retranslates the already translated text of their writing back into the original source language. A good example of self-back-translation comes from one of the short stories by Haruki Murakami, a renowned Japanese author and translator, who back-translated the English translation of his short story “Rēdāhōzen [Lederhosen]” into Japanese and published it as a new version. This peculiar practise of self-back-translation has led a handful of translation researchers to probe into some of the ongoing debates in translation studies from new perspectives—e.g., to examine the relationship between intralingual and interlingual translation, the originality and translation, the translator’s (in)visibility, and more. Asking questions such as these, this paper examines the nature and purpose of self-back-translation and the role of translation in general, particularly from a self-translator’s perspective, by Murakami’s self-back-translation with another example by a self-translator. The study has found that much could get lost while going through the filtration process of self-back-translation, but much could be gained. Whether it is interlingual or intralingual translation, the end-product of this process could be an improvement from the source text—i.e., the translation sometimes exceeds the original. This is why some writers self-(back)-translate.

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“…Commonly, it aims to reveal the translation agents' strategy to reach the production objective. Hadley and Akashi (2015) point out that 'visibility' becomes a motive of Haruki Murakami, as a celebrity translator, in his literary translation practice. Here, besides being recognized as a legitimate writer, Murakami wants the public to realize his existence as a translator.…”

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confidence: 99%

Indonesian Government’s Motive and Literary Taste: A Perspective on the Translation Funding Program (TFP)

Kardiansyah

Salam

Saktiningrum

2022

Ahmad Dahlan J. English Studies

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The translation Funding Program (TFP) was initiated concerning the Indonesian government agenda to be the guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) 2015. As a result, it produced many Indonesian-English literary translations, particularly the two from Yogyakarta. By applying the Bourdieusian approach to cultural production, this study is arranged to unravel the government’s motive and literary taste behind the execution of that program, especially through the production of two literary works, “Pilgrimage in the Land of Java” and “Jatisaba.” This study is directed to figure out the importance of Indonesian-English translation for Indonesian literature and the criteria of literary works to be involved in such a government program. Therefore, the government’s motive and literary taste behind the TFP can be elaborated further. There are two primary techniques for the data collection in this research; 1. Digital library research is utilized to access relevant information about TFP, and 2. Interview the writers to get information about their experience participating in TFP. All collected data are synchronized in the analysis to explain the binding knot among the literary translation production, TFP, and FBF. As a result,the study reveals that there were some motives behind the production of literary translation through the TFP. Those motives were also related to the literary taste influenced by international demand.

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Translation and celebrity: The translation strategies of Haruki Murakami and their implications for the visibility paradigm

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

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