A Disguise For The Translator of The City In Crimson Cloak As An Envoy Between Cultures: Understanding Brazil, Translating Turkey, Sounding English
Small is Great. Cultural Transfer through Translating the literatures of Smaller European Nations, Budapeşte, Hungary, 10 - 13 March 2016, pp.1, (Summary Text)
- Publication Type: Conference Paper / Summary Text
- City: Budapeşte
- Country: Hungary
- Page Numbers: pp.1
- Istanbul University Affiliated: No
Abstract
As a Turkish author, Aslı Erdoğan was one of the main topics of agenda in Turkey and around with her writings and experiences in her life. Although she confronted many negative critiques, she was able to produce many written works of great intrinsic quality. Common issues in her works come to fore in the lives of heroes and heroines in their femininal life experiences and ruined physiology. As a woman, Erdoğan fictionalizes her narratives through her resistance against the established order of the world and her will to be unique among others’ oppressing eyes. In this paper, her book ‘’The City in Crimson Cloak’’ is analyzed under the focus of an American translator’s (Amy Marie Spangler) motive to translate a Turkish story taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The aim is to trace the culture-bound decisions in the translated text which seems to bear features of both the translator and the author. In the first part of the paper, Aslı Erdoğan’s writing style and themes she narrates in her books are surveyed from a readerly naive perspective. In the second part, it is tried to show cultural elements in the target text of ‘’The City in Crimson Cloak’’. In the third part, decisions by the translator are studied based on the cultural elements mentioned in the previous part with the help of cultural translation theory. After the process of analysis, it is seen that the translation turns out to be a culturally hybridized text with the translator’s attempt towards making it seem Turkish but sound English.