<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In a context where post-colonial translation has emerged as a strong interface between post-colonial studies and translation studies, the present paper examines the case of Salman Rushdie as a post-colonial translator. Drawing on concepts and ideas put forth by the two above-mentioned paradigms, the paper will argue that the strategies used by Rushdie in his attempts to write about the importance of redressing the balance of power and of resisting Orientalising practices are similar to those used by translators of post-colonial literature. The writing of post-colonial literature becomes an act of (re)translation, while translating post-colonial literature should aim at resisting domestication and at creating a target text that remains ‘foreign’ enough for the reader. While there is no doubt that through its post-colonial and global concerns Rushdie’s entire work fits this frame, the analysis will focus only on two works, <italic>Midnight’s Children</italic> and <italic>Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights</italic>, since they seem to bracket Rushdie’s efforts in this respect.</p></abstract>

In a context where post-colonial translation has emerged as a strong interface between post-colonial studies and translation studies, the present paper examines the case of Salman Rushdie as a post-colonial translator. Drawing on concepts and ideas put forth by the two above-mentioned paradigms, the paper will argue that the strategies used by Rushdie in his attempts to write about the importance of redressing the balance of power and of resisting Orientalising practices are similar to those used by translators of post-colonial literature. The writing of post-colonial literature becomes an act of (re)translation, while translating post-colonial literature should aim at resisting domestication and at creating a target text that remains ‘foreign’ enough for the reader. While there is no doubt that through its post-colonial and global concerns Rushdie’s entire work fits this frame, the analysis will focus only on two works, Midnight’s Children and Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, since they seem to bracket Rushdie’s efforts in this respect.

A Portrait of the Writer as a Translator: Salman Rushdie and the Challenges of Post-colonial Translation

American, British and Canadian Studies

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In a context where post-colonial translation has emerged as a strong interface between post-colonial studies and translation studies, the present paper...

A Portrait of the Writer as a Translator: Salman Rushdie and the Challenges of Post-colonial Translation

Published Online: Jun 22, 2019

Page range: 83 - 106

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2019-0007

Keywords
post-colonial studies, translation studies, post-colonial translation, renegotiation of power, hybridity, types of translation, Orientalism

© 2019 ABC Studies, Journal of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A Portrait of the Writer as a Translator: Salman Rushdie and the Challenges of Post-colonial Translation

Published Online: Jun 22, 2019

Page range: 83 - 106

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2019-0007

Keywordspost-colonial studies, translation studies, post-colonial translation, renegotiation of power, hybridity, types of translation, Orientalism

© 2019 ABC Studies, Journal of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
post-colonial studies, translation studies, post-colonial translation, renegotiation of power, hybridity, types of translation, Orientalism