Translating Gender Stereotypes
A Case Study of Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories and Color Purple
Abstract
Experts in translation studies always emphasize that translation is a significant manifestation of the interaction between two cultures, highlighting that during the act of translation, not only two languages, but also two cultures communicate with each other. Meanwhile, gender stereotypes are one of the cultural characteristics that may undergo changes during translation in accordance with the culture of the target language. The aim of the present study is to detect the gender stereotypes in The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories and The Color Purple based on the combined model of McIvens (2001) and Tyler (2003) and to identify the strategies used to translate these works. To do this, the gender stereotypes present in the original version of the mentioned works were first identified and extracted. Then, the strategies used in translating stereotypes were determined according to the model of Karoubi (2013). The results showed that in 71.5 percent of cases, translators used the gender preservation strategy to exactly transfer the source language gender stereotypes to the target language, and in 28.5 percent of cases, they changed the stereotypes with gender permutation (12%), gender explication (8%), gender omission (5.5%), and gender addition (3%).
Keywords:
Cultural differences, Gender roles, Gender stereotypes, Translation strategiesReferences
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