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Translation of Autobiography: Narrating self, translating the other
Susan XU Yun
[Benjamins Translation Library 136] 2017
► pp. 167–203

Chapter 6
Translating the “other”

Unreliable narrator and discordant voice

Article outline
  • 6.1Introduction
  • 6.2The “other” consciousness in translated narrative
  • 6.3Fallible filter, unreliable narrator and discordant narration
  • 6.4Fallible filters and translator-conscious irony
    • 6.4.1Irony and empathy retained
    • 6.4.2Irony and empathy created
    • 6.4.3Irony and empathy erased
  • 6.5Unreliable narrator and translator-unconscious irony
    • 6.5.1Factual discrepancy
    • 6.5.2Attitudinal inconsistence
    • 6.5.3Ideological discordance
  • 6.6Conclusion
  • Notes