<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper examines the German translation of two novels by the Cameroonian author Ferdinand Oyono and goes against the normative approach adopted by so many critics of translations of African literary texts. It argues that if the German translation of Ferdinand Oyono is bad in the Bermanian conception, it is mainly because it is a good translation of an original text which means to be read as translation. Hence it is neither good, nor bad.</p></abstract>

This paper examines the German translation of two novels by the Cameroonian author Ferdinand Oyono and goes against the normative approach adopted by so many critics of translations of African literary texts. It argues that if the German translation of Ferdinand Oyono is bad in the Bermanian conception, it is mainly because it is a good translation of an original text which means to be read as translation. Hence it is neither good, nor bad.

Ni bonne ni mauvaise : Ferdinand Oyono en traduction allemande

Université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich

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This paper examines the German translation of two novels by the Cameroonian author Ferdinand Oyono and goes against the normative approach adopted by so many...

Ni bonne ni mauvaise : Ferdinand Oyono en traduction allemande

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 113 - 128

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tran-2018-0001

Keywords
bad translation, good translation, glocal, writing-as-translation

© 2018 El-Shaddai Deva, published by Sciendo

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

Ni bonne ni mauvaise : Ferdinand Oyono en traduction allemande

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 113 - 128

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tran-2018-0001

Keywordsbad translation, good translation, glocal, writing-as-translation

© 2018 El-Shaddai Deva, published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
bad translation, good translation, glocal, writing-as-translation