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Approaches to the translation of children’s literature

A review of critical studies since 1960

 | College of Higher Education, Schwäbisch Gmünd
Published online: 19 June 2003
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College of Higher Education, Schwäbisch Gmünd Children’s literature, a traditional domain of teachers and librarians, has, in the past 30 years, been made a subject of academic research. Simultaneously, more and more studies have been dedicated to the translation of children’s literature. There are four important factors which have prompted such studies: (1) the assumption that translated children’s books build bridges between different cultures, (2) text-specific challenges to the translator, (3) the polysystem theory which classifies children’s literature as a subsystem of minor prestige within literature, and (4) the age-specific addressees either as implied or as real readers. This review of critical approaches to the translation of children’s literature is structured in such a way that the methodological shift from source orientation to target orientation becomes obvious.
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La littérature pour enfants, traditionnellement réservée aux enseignants et aux bibliothé-caires, est devenue un objet de recherches universitaires depuis une trentained’années. Parallèllement, de plus en plus d’études ont été consacrées à la question des traductions de livres pour enfants. Pour comprendre cette évolution, il faut compter avec les quatre facteurs suivants: (1) l’idée que les livres traduits pour enfants construisent des ponts entre des cultures différentes, (2) les défis textuels auxquels se trouve confronté le traducteur, (3) la théorie du polysystème qui conçoit la littérature pour enfants comme un sous-système littéraire de moindre prestige, (4) les destinataires des traductions, qu’ils soient lecteurs implicites ou réels. L’analyse des différentes démarches critiques est structurée de manièreà montrer le glissement méthodologique d’une orientation de type “sourcier” versune orientation de type “cibliste”.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Children’s literature—a new field of research
    • 1.2A shift of focus in the studies of translation
    • 1.3Scope and perspective of this review
  • 2.The import of children’s books into various countries
  • 3.Deviations from the source text
  • 4.Challenges of the source text
    • 4.1Pictures and words
    • 4.2Playful use of language
    • 4.3Culture-specific phenomena
  • 5.The impact of the target culture
    • 5.1Norms
      • 5.1.1Theory-oriented case studies
      • 5.1.2Nation-oriented period studies
    • 5.2Ideology
      • 5.2.1Historical children’s books abroad
      • 5.2.2Contemporary children’s books abroad
    • 5.3Sentence structure
  • 6.Translating for children
  • 7.Translators’ experiences
  • References
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