Translating the Female Self across Cultures: Mothers and daughters in autobiographical narratives

318 Pages·2018·2.06 MB·English

by  Eliana Maestri

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Translating the Female Self across Cultures
Benjamins Translation Library (BTL)
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University of Turku & University of Vienna Tel Aviv University
Immanuel Kant Baltic
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Amparo Hurtado Albir Rosa Rabadán Michaela Wolf
Universitat Autònoma de University of León University of Graz
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Volume 130
Translating the Female Self across Cultures
Mothers and daughters in autobiographical narratives
by Eliana Maestri
Translating the Female Self
across Cultures
Mothers and daughters
in autobiographical narratives
Eliana Maestri
University of Exeter
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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For Adalgisa,
with love, admiration and respect

Il sole se n’è andato
Non tornerà che domani
Domani se n’è andato
Non tornerà che col sole.
Daniele Morresi

Table of contents
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
0.1 Identity construction in/through translation 1
0.2 Approach and methodology 6
0.3 Overview of the chapters 12
chapter 1
Assessing irony, characterization and religion in the Italian translation
of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 19
1.1 Introduction: The success of Oranges and the study of Le arance 19
1.2 Humorous and ironic depictions of the mother figure 22
1.3 The Italian rendition of the mother’s religious vocation 31
1.4 Collocative clashes and the allotropic nature of the mother 43
1.5 The body, gender roles and transvestism in the Italian
and English texts 52
1.6 Conclusion 59
chapter 2
Recodification of class and gender in the French translation of
Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 61
2.1 Introduction: Adoption and class in Oranges 61
2.2 The mother’s social class and status: Limited possibilities, hoarding,
envy and rituals 65
2.3 The mother’s position in relation to the working class:
Repulsion and disassociation from corruption and pathology 72
2.4 The regulation of motherhood, power and ethics 78
2.5 The maternal precepts: Class mobility and female emancipation 84
2.6 The daughter’s principles and attitude to issues of class 93
2.7 Conclusion 98