Translations in Culture

Abstract

Since the cultural turn in translation studies, formulated by Susan Bassnett and André Lefèvere (Bassnett and Lefèvere 1990), we have witnessed a flourishing of interest in the area of translation perceived as cultural phenomenon, a mediator between the Same – the source language/culture and the Other – the target language/culture. This awareness of perceiving an act of translation in terms of cultural transposition brings new perspectives and dilemmas and situates literary translation in the spotlight of literary studies. The translation of a literary text in the light of cultural awareness in translation studies has become, as Trivedi writes, “a transaction not between two languages, or a somewhat mechanical sounding act of linguistic “substitution” […], but rather a more complex negotiation between two cultures” (Trivedi 2005)[…]