Negotiating Translation and Transcreation of Children's Literature: From Alice to the Moomins

236 Pages·2020·5.495 MB·English

by  Joanna Dybiec-Gajer, Riitta Oittinen, Małgorzata Kodura

New Frontiers in Translation Studies
Joanna Dybiec-Gajer
Riitta Oittinen
Małgorzata Kodura  Editors
Negotiating
Translation and
Transcreation
of Children’s
Literature
From Alice to the Moomins
New Frontiers in Translation Studies
Series editor
Defeng Li
Center for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition, 
University of Macau, Macau SAR
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11894
Joanna Dybiec-Gajer • Riitta Oittinen
Małgorzata Kodura
Editors
Negotiating Translation and
Transcreation of Children’s
Literature
From Alice to the Moomins
Editors
Joanna Dybiec-Gajer Riitta Oittinen
Pedagogical University of Kraków Tampere University
Kraków, Poland Tampere, Finland
Małgorzata Kodura
Pedagogical University of Kraków
Kraków, Poland
ISSN 2197-8689 ISSN 2197-8697 (electronic)
New Frontiers in Translation Studies
ISBN 978-981-15-2432-5 ISBN 978-981-15-2433-2 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2433-2
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Contents
1 Introduction: Travelling Beyond Translation—Transcreating
for Young Audiences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Joanna Dybiec-Gajer and Riitta Oittinen
Part I T ranslating and Illustrating for Children
2 From Translation to Transcreation to Translation: Excerpts
from a Translator’s and Illustrator’s Notebooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Riitta Oittinen
3 Postanthropocentric Transformations in Children’s
Literature: Transcreating Struwwelpeter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Joanna Dybiec-Gajer
4 Remixed Fairy Tales, Distorted Legends: Agnieszka
Taborska’s Surrealistic Picturebook
Szalony Zegar (The Crazy Clock) and Its German
Translation by Klaus Staemmler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Beate Sommerfeld
Part II R ewriting the Canon
5 On the Morally Dubious Custom of Rewriting Canonical
Translations of Children’s Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Aniela Korzeniowska
6 Translators in Kensington Gardens: Polish Translations
of J. M. Barrie’s First Peter Pan Novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Aleksandra Wieczorkiewicz
7 Does Each Generation Have Its Own Ania? Canonical
and Polemical Polish Translations of Lucy Maud
Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Dorota Pielorz
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Part III Transcreating Lewis Carroll’s Alice
8 How Can One Word Change a World? Black Humour
and Nonsense in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
and its Polish Translations from the Cognitive-Ethnolinguistic
Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Agnieszka Gicala
9 Portmanteaus, Blends and Contaminations in Polish
Translations of “Jabberwocky” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Agata Brajerska-Mazur
Part IV S olving Translation Problems: From Double Address
to Sound and Taboo
10 The Dilemma of Double Address. Polish Translation
of Proper Names in Tove Jansson’s Moomin Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska
11 Translating Sounds: A Study into the Russian-Language
Translations of Onomatopoeic Proper Names in the
Twentieth-Century English- Language Children’s Literature . . . . . . 177
Anna Sasaki
12 Taboo in the Polish Translation of Joanna Nadin’s
The Rachel Riley Diaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Joanna Dyła-Urbańska
13 Translation or Transcreation? Ghost Stories in Charles
Causley’s Poems for Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Ewelina Kwiatek
14 French Faeries and Alliterative Plays in Lucy Peacock’s
Adaptation of Edmund Spenser’s Poem The Faerie Queene . . . . . . . . 227
Piotr Plichta
List of Figures
Fig. 2.1 “What is his sorrow?” she asked the Gryphon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Fig. 2.2 “Who cares for you?” said Alice… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Fig. 2.3 “Off with her head!” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Fig. 2.4 However, this bottle was not marked “poison”… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Fig. 2.5 …but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was
too small… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Fig. 2.6 The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm
a great letter… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Fig. 2.7 The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Fig. 2.8 How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie… . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Fig. 2.9 “Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Fig. 2.10 “No room! No room!” they cried out when they saw Alice
coming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Fig. 2.11 “Hold your tongue!” added the Gryphon… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Fig. 2.12 “Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail… . . . . . . . 28
Fig. 3.1 Hoffmann’s Struwwelpeter from the first edition (1845) . . . . . . . . 42
Fig. 3.2 Hoffmann’s Struwwelpeter in a canonical form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Fig. 3.3 Stepka-rastrepka from a Russian edition (1849) (detail),
ill. G. Hohenfelden and L. Bohnstedt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Fig. 3.4 Staś Straszydło from the first Polish-language edition
([1858]/1892) (page layout) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Fig. 3.5 The latest reillustration of Polish Struwwelpeter—Piotruś
Czupiradło (2017), ill. J. Sokołowska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Fig. 6.1 When he heard Peter’s voice he popped in alarm behind a tulip
(Chap. II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Fig. 6.2 The fairies have their tiffs with the birds (Chap. II) . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Fig. 6.3 The fairies sit round on mushrooms, and at first they are
well- behaved (Chap. IV) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
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Fig. 6.4 “My Lord Duke”, said the physician elatedly, “I have the honour to
inform your excellency that your grace is in love”. (Chap. V) . . . 105
Fig. 9.1 Toves, raths and borogoves as illustrated by John Tenniel . . . . . . 146
Fig. 11.1 Strategies for translating onomatopoeic proper names . . . . . . . . 184
Fig. 11.2 Subjects’ reactions to a transcribed or transliterated
onomatopoeic proper name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Fig. 11.3 Subjects’ reactions to an onomatopoeic proper name
translated with the use of onymic replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Fig. 11.4 Translation of onomatopoeic proper names with the use of
onymic replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
List of Tables
Table 3.1 Heinrich Hoffmann’s “Struwwelpeter” and its selected
translations/rewritings into English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Table 3.2 Selected translations/rewritings of “Struwwelpeter” into Russian
and Polish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Table 5.1 Selected Polish renderings of A Christmas Carol (1909–2003) . . 79
Table 5.2 Selected Polish renderings of The Prince and the Pauper
(1924–2002) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Table 7.1 Polish translations of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green
Gables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Table 8.1 The Duchess’s lullaby and its parody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Table 8.2 Selected published Polish translations of the Duchess’s lullaby
(cf. Sect. 8.7 below), with English back-translations . . . . . . . . . 134
Table 9.1 Polish translations of “Jabberwocky” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Table 9.2 Numbers of neologisms and blends in “Jabberwocky” and its
Polish translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Table 9.3 “Burbled” in Polish translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Table 9.4 “Chortled” in Polish translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Table 9.5 “Brilling” in Polish translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Table 10.1 Proper names of Moomin book protagonists in Polish
translation: techniques and effects  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Table 11.1 Examples of onomatopoeia markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Table 11.2 Examples of onomatopoeia markers in onomatopoeic
proper names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Table 11.3 Examples of onomatopoeic proper names in English and
Russian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Table 11.4 Onomatopoeic proper names in English-language children’s
literature and their Russian-language translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
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