Translation and negotiation of gender stereotypes: metamorphosis of female characters in the English version of a Chinese classical novel

Wang, Yunhong; Yu, Xinbing; Chen, Qing

doi:10.1080/0907676x.2019.1663887

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“… During the translation of The Old Man and the Sea, Eileen Chang consciously tries hard to preserve the meaning and style of the original text, while her strong feminist tendency leads her to unconsciously utter women's voices to a certain degree, not very explicitly, but implicitly. Wang, Yu & Chen (2019) Translator’ ideology Not explicitly mentioned Chinese-English Shuihu Zhuan by Shi Naian (translator: Sidney Shapiro). Sidney Shapiro has mitigated many of the stereotypes against women in patriarchal society present in the ST Hou et al.…”

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Feminism and literary translation: A systematic review

Irshad

Yasmin

2022

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“… Wang, Yu & Chen (2019) analysed the work of Shapiro who had translated one of the Chinese classic novels, Shuihu Zhuan , into English. The translation indicated how the gender consciousness had worked in the process of translation as the translator had mitigated some stereotypes against women present in the ST.…”

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Feminism and literary translation: A systematic review

Irshad

Yasmin

2022

Heliyon

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“…In the narrative intervals created by these summaries, the narrator also inserts commentaries and constantly raises simulated rhetorical questions to his addressees. Such commentaries and questions not only “attract the reader’s attention, increasing their interest, but also heighten suspense and improve the narration’s efficiency” (Wang, 2020:135). Finally, toward the close of each chapter, a summative comment initiated by “有分教” [as can be seen] is used to convey the narrator’s interpretation of and judgment on the key episodes that have happened, together with an appellative ending “且听下回分解” [please hear the story to be told in the next chapter] predicting what will happen in the next chapter.…”

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Translation of Narrative Voice and Reproduction of a Simulated Storytelling Mode

Wang

Zhang

2021

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Chinese vernacular fiction is characterized by a simulated storytelling mode through which the narrator manipulates narration and facilitates interaction with the reader. There is little research on the representation of this distinctive Chinese narrative mode across languages and cultures. Recently scholars in translation studies have begun to focus on how different types and levels of voice are represented in translated texts. The present article investigates how the overt voice of the simulated storyteller characterizing the Chinese vernacular narrative style is represented in three complete English translations of a Chinese classic entitled Shuihu Zhuan. The article includes a comparative study of how the storyteller-narrator manifests his narrative voice through storytelling formulae and rhetorical narratorial questions and more importantly, on how the storyteller-narrator’s voice has been rendered by different translators. Besides, by relating the reproduction of narrative voice to translatorship, it shows that the professional role and status of each translator influence their strategy-making as to whether, and to what extent, the narrative voice of the source text should be reconstructed.

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“…Nevertheless, various indicators have been examined to determine gender stereotypes in translation studies. Regarding the translation of literary works, scholars have centered on narrators' naming and addressing (Wang et al, 2019) and linguistic choices of female portrayals (Zeven & Dorst, 2020). As for the translation of non-literary texts, De Marco (2016) studied offensive words to women in the dubbing and subtitling of films.…”

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Manipulation of Female Stereotypes in Chinese Translations of Fragrance Product Descriptions

Ang

Mansor

2022

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Although most research examines female stereotypes in advertising, few studies focus on translating female stereotypes in advertising texts from English into Chinese. This study explores how female stereotypes are recognized in fragrance product descriptions and how they are manipulated in Chinese translations. Twelve fragrance brands with 136 product descriptions were selected, and the qualitative analysis software ATLAS.ti was used for data analysis. This research recognized female stereotypes by examining communal and agentic traits. Results indicate that the female portrayals in the source and target texts present a positive trend but are stereotypical in different aspects. Female stereotypes in the Chinese translations are overwhelmingly indicated by communal traits but surprisingly by fewer sex-related traits. Manipulative strategies account for 70% of the strategy used to render female stereotypes. These manipulative strategies include gender omission, gender addition, gender reversal, gender permutation, and gender explicitation. Cross-cultural differences could partly explain the choice of manipulative strategies. The findings ascertain translation as manipulation in rendering female stereotypes in fragrance descriptions. It may provide references for translation practitioners in their future translation practice.

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Translation and negotiation of gender stereotypes: metamorphosis of female characters in the English version of a Chinese classical novel

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

Feminism and literary translation: A systematic review

Feminism and literary translation: A systematic review

Translation of Narrative Voice and Reproduction of a Simulated Storytelling Mode

Manipulation of Female Stereotypes in Chinese Translations of Fragrance Product Descriptions

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