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Title: Transformance: Dialogic translation theory and cultural performance
Author: Maysa Hayward
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Degree Awarded: Indiana University of Pennsylvania , English Language and Literature
Degree Date: 1997
Linguistic Subfield(s): Translation
Ling & Literature
Director(s): Patrick Murphy
Abstract:

In this dissertation, I review the history of translation theories and then propose a new theory of translation, which I call 'transformance.' I use Bakhtinian dialogics as the theory's base and incorporate insights available from poststructuralism and deconstruction, postcolonial theory, recent feminist theory, and performance theory and theories of the fantastic. In the body of my dissertation I use a case study approach to selected translations from Egyptian Arabic to English to explore how transformance operates within three areas, ideology, space, and style. My thesis is that translation theory, engaging with literary theory, offers new insights into the ways that literature works on the reader of the translation and the role of literary translations in and across cultures.
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