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Ideological Manipulation in Intralingual Translation: Case Studies

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Ideological Manipulation of Children’s Literature Through Translation and Rewriting

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This chapter focuses on the ideological manipulation in intralingual translation through an analysis of rewritten works of children’s literature. As already mentioned in the introduction, in this work the term ‘intralingual translation’ refers to all those texts which have been translated within the same language by means of either rewording or rewriting. As a result, in the first two case studies readers are presented with rewritings of classic children’s books which are totally different from their original source texts whereas in the last case study ideological manipulation was detected in the different use of spelling, lexical choices and culture-bound terms. The three case studies chosen for this chapter are (1) the fascist rewriting of Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio as an example of manipulation of political ideology, (2) Snow White’s feminist rewritings by Angela Carter and Emma Donoghue as cases of ideological manipulation of classic fairy tales and (3) the intralingual translation of Harry Potter from British into American English as an example of manipulation of cultural ideology aimed at decontextualising a typically British text and adapting it to the American culture. The first two texts are analysed as a case of intralingual translation to show how the popularity of their main characters is re-framed and re-interpreted to suit specific political and feminist ideologies respectively whereas the last text is an example of how translating into the same language only serves the ideological purpose of domesticating a foreign book for hegemonic reasons.

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Leonardi, V. (2020). Ideological Manipulation in Intralingual Translation: Case Studies. In: Ideological Manipulation of Children’s Literature Through Translation and Rewriting. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47749-3_3

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