LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 6 June 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Re-birth of Literature in Translation

Shaina Rauf Khan, M.A, M.Phil. Candidate

Abstract

Translation as a communicative practice is taking place around us as we are involved in interpreting the text of one language into another knowingly or unknowingly. Since literature is a kind of text, so literature of one source language is being translated into target language, from times immemorial. In the recent years literature of one country is translated into the language of another country for the purposes like familiarizing one country’s or community’s culture into another country or community. In the given research study the phenomenon of literature translation and its revival in translation is analyzed. The aim of the study is to find out whether a piece of literature gets a new birth after it is translated into another language or not. It highlights the factors that can contribute in giving a new life to a translated work and make it acceptable among the readers of the target language literature.

The translated version of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ “No One Writes to the Colonel” is taken for this study. The novella/short story is actually written in Spanish but translated to English by J.S. Bernstein. The findings led to the conclusion that it is possible for a work of literature to get a new birth in translation depending upon the factor that it should be a work of elevated themes discussing universal problems, so that the readers of the target language may find it a story of their own, because human nature remains same and does not change with time and space.

1 Introduction

1.1 Introduction

Translation as a communicative practice is taking place around us as we are involved in interpreting the text of one language into another knowingly or unknowingly. Precisely speaking it is the transmission of source language text by means of any target language text and may take either written or verbal form. As a matter of fact translation is a process with diverse advantages and uses, and it has been and is still used for converting texts of various sorts from one source language to other target language. These texts vary from ordinary life incidents to complex scientific materials. Ascertaining the history of translation is not something that can be easily agreed upon or, it may not be wrong to say that from the time when written literature appeared, there exist translations or translated works. Due to ever increasing demand of translation Machine aided translation and Computer Aided Translation (CAT) are implied to help human translator.

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Shaina Rauf Khan, M.A, M.Phil. Candidate
Lecturer
Department of Humanities
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Abbottabad
Pakistan
shainarauf@ciit.net.pk
shainarauf@gmail.com
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