‘Translation Condition’ in Iranian Diasporic Literature:
Manifestation of Translation as Experience
Abstract
Recently, translation was conceived as a personal experience undergone by immigrants whose lives were conditioned by translation through exposure to borders, hospitality issues and the way immigrants were figured. Translation in this broad sense might be textually represented in the literature immigrants penned. To examine this, a corpus by three groups of authors of Iranian descent was examined. The study sought to discover the most prominent translation condition. It also looked for differences among authors. To collect data, a model was developed drawing on the concept of Migrant’s Translation Condition, involving three concepts of border, hospitality and the figure. After operationalization, the model was mounted in MAXQDA 2020 software. All words, phrases and sentences qualifying as the subcategories of translation condition were coded through close reading. Next, the frequency of each subcategory was extracted to clarify the prevalence of each category along with differences between author groups. The results established the concept of border as the most outstanding translation condition. Furthermore, the authors who left Iran as children/teenagers had the highest references to translation condition. The findings also showed that Iranian diasporic literature could serve as a translational survival strategy for Persian language, culture and identity.
Keywords:
Border, Figure, Hospitality, Immigrants, Iranian diasporic literature, Translation conditionReferences
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