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Translation of Captives of Superstition State Novel from Cultural Perspective

Falah Hussein Hanoon Al-Sari

Volume: 12 Issue: 4 2022

Abstract:

This paper analyzes the strategies adopted in the English translation of the Arabic novel Captives of Superstition State (2019) from a Cultural perspective. In translating literary works, especially between Arabic and English which belong to two distant cultures, cultural loss seems to be inevitable. Salih’s translation focuses on the transfer of the verbal message of the source text and is mostly concerned with its target reader. In terms of culture, Salih’s translation employs many strategies to provide the same equivalent in the receiving culture to maintain the original cultural identity preserved in the source text.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v12i04.024

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