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Ideological Manipulation in Interlingual Translation: Case Studies

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This chapter focuses on the ideological manipulation in interlingual translation through an analysis of three specific texts: (1) Harry Potter as a form of cultural adaptation. The hidden ideology behind naming strategies created by J. K. Rowling was manipulated in several ways in Italian, Spanish and French in an attempt to adapt this text to their respective target audience’s expectation and understanding; (2) Michaëlis’s work, Bibi, as a case of adaptation strategies aimed at avoiding censorship. This text underwent a double censorship in its translation into German and Italian; and (3) Collodi’s Pinocchio as a case of national adaptation whose translations into both British and American English show different approaches to tackle the issues of horror and violence. These translations display different degrees of ideological manipulation dictated by the historical and socio-cultural context in which they were produced and released.

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    J. K. Rowling in ‘The Scotsman’, November 2002.

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Leonardi, V. (2020). Ideological Manipulation in Interlingual 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_4

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