Postcolonial Polysystems
The production and reception of translated children's literature in South Africa
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Postcolonial Polysystems: The Production and Reception of Translated Children’s Literature in South Africa is an original and provocative contribution to the field of children’s literature research and translation studies. It draws on a variety of methodologies to provide a perspective, both product- and process-oriented, on the ways in which translation contributes to the production of children’s literature in South Africa, with a special interest in language and power, as well as post- and neocolonial hybridity. The book explores the forces that affect the use of translation in producing children’s literature in various languages in South Africa, and shows how some of these forces precipitate in the selection, production and reception of translated children’s books in Afrikaans and English. It breaks new ground in its interrogation of aspects of translation theory within the multilingual and postcolonial context of South Africa, as well as in its innovative experimental investigation of the reception of domesticating and foreignising strategies in translated picture books. The book has won the 2013 EST Young Scholar Prize.
[Benjamins Translation Library, 105] 2012. xvii, 312 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. xi–xii
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List of tables | p. xiii
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List of figures | pp. xv–xvii
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1. Introduction | pp. 1–27
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2. Language-in-education policy, publishing and the translation of children’s literature in South Africa | pp. 29–92
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3. A theoretical framework: System, text, norms and ideology | pp. 93–132
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4. Preliminary norms: The selection of children’s books for translation | pp. 133–183
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5. Operational norms: The translation of cultural aspects | pp. 185–215
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6. Reader responses to domesticating and foreignising translation strategies: An eye-tracking experiment | pp. 217–267
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7. Conclusions and prospects | pp. 269–280
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Index | pp. 307–312
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Subjects
Literature & Literary Studies
Translation & Interpreting Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFP: Translation & interpretation
Main BISAC Subject
LAN023000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting