Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Management Science, Education Technology, Arts, Social Science and Economics (msetasse-16)

Translator's Subjectivity in Feminist Translations—A Case Study of Eileen Chang's Translation Practice

Authors
Zhihai Chen, Xiaoxiu Zhang
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Zhihai Chen
Available Online November 2016.
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10.2991/msetasse-16.2016.132How to use a DOI?
Keywords
translator's subjectivity; feminist translation theory; female thoughts; Eileen Chang.
Abstract

Eileen Chang is a great feminist writer. Compared with her writing works, her translations, which are the important part of her literary contributions, are ignored to some extent. In point of this, by analyzing Eileen Chang's purposeful choice of the original text and translation strategies, the paper tries to explore the display of translators' subjectivity from the perspective of feminist translation. This paper shows that feminist translators' subjectivity are manifested greatly on the translation practice of Eileen Chang. The significance is that this research presents a new perspective to study the translators' subjectivity. Meanwhile, the study of Eileen Chang's translation practice p directions and experience for the feminist translators.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Management Science, Education Technology, Arts, Social Science and Economics (msetasse-16)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2016
ISBN
978-94-6252-263-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/msetasse-16.2016.132How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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