{"title":"译者对性别偏见表达的颠覆:《三体》三部曲英译研究","authors":"Qing Li","doi":"10.1080/0907676x.2023.2268103","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe Three-Body Problem trilogy, a work by Cixin Liu, won the Hugo Award, making it the first Asian science fiction work to achieve this. The English translation of this trilogy has garnered significant attention from academics, emphasizing its literary significance. However, the androcentric and gender-biased expressions in the original text, as well as the subversive translation used to mitigate them, have received little attention. This mixed methods study, based on Theo Hermans’ concept ‘modalities of normative force’ (1996), aims to examine the translation norms in this regard and discuss how these norms define the relation between source and target texts. The findings indicate that translators Ken Liu and Joel Martinsen were required to employ subversive translation norms to eliminate gender-biased content that might cause discomfort and aversion among the target audience. This highlights the importance of translators’ subjectivity in balancing divergent social and cultural contexts during the translation process.KEYWORDS: Subversive translationnormsAndrocentrismgender-bias AcknowledgementsI would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their thought-provoking comments.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsQing LiQing Li is a PhD (ABD) in the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at University of Calgary, Canada. 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Translators’ subversion of gender-biased expressions: a study of the English translation of The Three-Body Problem trilogy
ABSTRACTThe Three-Body Problem trilogy, a work by Cixin Liu, won the Hugo Award, making it the first Asian science fiction work to achieve this. The English translation of this trilogy has garnered significant attention from academics, emphasizing its literary significance. However, the androcentric and gender-biased expressions in the original text, as well as the subversive translation used to mitigate them, have received little attention. This mixed methods study, based on Theo Hermans’ concept ‘modalities of normative force’ (1996), aims to examine the translation norms in this regard and discuss how these norms define the relation between source and target texts. The findings indicate that translators Ken Liu and Joel Martinsen were required to employ subversive translation norms to eliminate gender-biased content that might cause discomfort and aversion among the target audience. This highlights the importance of translators’ subjectivity in balancing divergent social and cultural contexts during the translation process.KEYWORDS: Subversive translationnormsAndrocentrismgender-bias AcknowledgementsI would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their thought-provoking comments.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsQing LiQing Li is a PhD (ABD) in the School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures at University of Calgary, Canada. Her research interest covers post-colonial translation theory, critical translation study, and museum translation.
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Perspectives: Studies in Translatology encourages studies of all types of interlingual transmission, such as translation, interpreting, subtitling etc. The emphasis lies on analyses of authentic translation work, translation practices, procedures and strategies. Based on real-life examples, studies in the journal place their findings in an international perspective from a practical, theoretical or pedagogical angle in order to address important issues in the craft, the methods and the results of translation studies worldwide. Perspectives: Studies in Translatology is published quarterly, each issue consisting of approximately 80 pages. The language of publication is English although the issues discussed involve all languages and language pairs.