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Linguistic Varieties in Homegoing: Translating the Other’s Voice into Spanish
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The Problem of the Explanatory: Linguistic Variation in Twenty-First-Century Spanish Retranslations of Huckleberry Finn
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In: Journal of Transnational American Studies, vol 12, iss 2 (2021)
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Starting with an overview of the complex notion of “retranslation,” this essay examines the six different translations of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that have been published in Spain in the early twenty-first century. Specifically, this paper ponders how the newer Spanish versions of Twain’s novel tend to contradict the retranslation hypothesis, as they do not often portray the seven literary dialects announced by the Explanatory that opens Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The linguistic varieties included in the source text seem problematic for Spanish translators, whose strategies entail paratextual additions, depicting regional target dialects to recreate an interplay of voices, playing with nonstandard spelling, omitting the introductory note, and suppressing any trace of literary dialects in the target text. The analysis leads the author to observe how publishing norms—particularly publishers’ tendency to reprint previous translations, publishers’s commercial interests, and their predilection for unmarked texts in standard Spanish—have led to translations that ignore the diversity of voices portrayed by Twain’s novel.
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Huckleberry Finn Spanish translations; Linguistic Variation; Mark Twain's Explanatory as translation problem; publishing norms; retranslation hypothesis; transnational American Studies
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URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9m77f7vb
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Margaret Walker's Jubileo : the first neo-slave narrative translated into spanish
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La traducción al español de las novelas de esclavitud afroamericanas: Variación lingüística e ideología
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Me no repent yet: estrategias para la traducción del inglés jamaicano en breve historia de siete asesinatos de Marlon James
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