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The article focuses on translators’ discursive presence in two American translations of Polish children’s classic Król Maciuś Pierwszy (1923), that is Matthew the Young King (1945) and King Matt the First (1986). More specifically, it demonstrates how in different socio-historical circumstances the two translations communicated references to eating and drinking and descriptions of various food items and alcoholic drinks to younger readers. The translations in question exhibit widely differing approaches and strategies of children’s literature translators in this respect, ranging from omission and mitigation of potentially controversial passages, through addition and amplification, with the aim of catering for the tastes of younger audiences, to foreignization.
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Borodo, M. (2019). “Mountains of Whipped Cream”, King Matt and the Discursive Presence of the Translator. In: Mianowski, J., Borodo, M., Schreiber, P. (eds) Memory, Identity and Cognition: Explorations in Culture and Communication. Second Language Learning and Teaching(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12590-5_4
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