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Monthly Archives: August 2022
Translating Laila Lalami
by Emire Gül Yildiz As a group, we chose the translatory strategy of foreignization to translate the excerpts from The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami because we wanted to retain the source text’s information without changing the meaning (cf. Bassnett … Continue reading
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Translation: A Constant Act of Balancing Words
by Lea-Marie Schneider Translation can be done in several ways with different emphases and different theories in mind. The focus we had was based on one of Walkowitz’s theories about the Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of … Continue reading
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Confronting the West with Mustafa’s Story: Translating Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account as a Process of Amplifying Voices
by Leonita Rexhaj, Zainab Al-Tekreeti, and Anna Prickarz Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account tells the story of Mustafa ibn Muhammad ibn Abdussalam al-Zamori, the slave of a Spanish conquistador. The fictional memoir is written in the first person, creating the … Continue reading
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