TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarah Reed
PY  - 2019
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1664-249X
SN  - 9781788740081
TI  - Translating Cultural Identity
T2  - French Translations of Australian Crime Fiction
DO  - 10.3726/b12036
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1056387
N2  - The genre of crime fiction – so often rooted in the details of a place, time and subculture – enjoys significant international popularity and provides readers with a unique opportunity to explore the different cultural identities represented in its texts. This book offers a convincing rationale to illustrate how crime fiction in translation can be especially productive when examining the projection of a specific cultural identity to a new, foreign readership. Focusing on the intercultural transcreation of Australian cultural identity for a new francophone readership, the book offers a comprehensive and accessible theme-based analysis highlighting how the choice of translation strategy can significantly affect representations of cultural identity. The author asks important questions about the compromises that are necessary in finding creative solutions to translation problems and discovers some unexpected and surprising consequences of the decisions made for the new readers who believe they are gaining insights into another culture through reading crime fiction in translation.
KW  - translation studies, cultural identity, French translation of Australian literature, twentieth-century Australian crime fiction, comparative literature, genre fiction, Australian and French, cultural specificity in translation
LA  - English
ER  -