Self-translation occurs in various writing situations. Since research on self-translation largely focuses on literary self-translation, this article will tend to have a similar focus.
The practice of self-translation has attracted critical attention especially since the beginning of this century, in the wake of intensive investigation into the field of non-authorial translation in the twentieth century. Literary self-translation has been recognized as a special branch of translation studies at least since the publication of the first edition of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies in 1998.
Research
Within the study of translation, literary self-translation has been one of the most neglected practices. Until recently, very little research has been done in this area. Many studies focus on single authors, most of them on Samuel Beckett.[1] Research topics are the reasons for self-translation, the methods of self-translation and the textual relation between both texts.[2]
Types of self-translation
Self-translation may result either from a regular activity of the author or from a merely sporadic experience, which may be due to a variety of reasons. The latter case is represented, for example, by James Joyce's self-translation into Italian of two passages from his "Work in Progress" (later entitled "Finnegans Wake").[3] Other relevant cases are the self-translations of Stefan George and Rainer Maria Rilke.[4]—Self-translation may result from a process in which either the mother tongue or an acquired tongue is the source language, so that the target language varies accordingly. The latter case is represented by a few Belgian poets of the period between the two World Wars (among them Roger Avermaete and Camille Melloy), who self-translated their texts into Flemish shortly after completing the originals in the acquired yet fully mastered French language.[5]—Self-translation may occur either some time after the original has been completed or during the process of creation, so that the two versions develop almost simultaneously and inevitably influence each other. These two types are sometimes referred to as consecutive self-translation and simultaneous self-translation.[6]—Self-translation may even involve more than one target language, whether native or acquired. This is the case with authors like Fausto Cercignani,[7] Alejandro Saravia,[8] and Luigi Donato Ventura.[9]
Factors that encourage self-translation
The elitarian character of a specific language may encourage self-translation from this to a local language, for example from Latin to vernacular in medieval and early modern times.[10] The cultural dominance of a specific language in a multilingual society may encourage self-translation from a minority language to the dominant one.[11] The cultural dominance of the national language may encourage self-translation from a local dialect.[12] The cultural dominance of a specific language in the international context may encourage self-translation from a national language to an internationally recognized language like English. But English as a target language is more common in cases where the author migrates to an English-speaking country.[13] Perfect or almost perfect bilingualism may encourage self-translation in either direction, irrespective of market-related considerations.
Dissatisfaction with existing translations or distrust of translators may encourage self-translation, irrespective of market-related considerations.
Self-translation versus non-authorial translation
Irrespective of the intrinsic qualities of the secondary text, self-translations are often regarded as superior to non-authorial translations. This is because "the writer-translator is no doubt felt to have been in a better position to recapture the intentions of the author of the original than any ordinary translator".[14] If not based on the intrinsic qualities of the secondary text, arguments against self-translation may reflect specific socio-cultural considerations or a desire to criticize dubious editorial practices.[15]
History
To date, the most comprehensive overview of the history of self-translation is given by Jan Hokenson and Marcella Munson in their study The Bilingual Text: History and Theory of Literary Self-Translation.[16]
Some of the prominent self-translators are Chaucer,[17]Thomas More,[18]Vladimir Nabokov,[19]Samuel Beckett,[1]Karen Blixen,[20]Chinghiz Aitmatov and Julien Green.[21] According to Julio-César Santoyo the history of self-translation can be traced back to the Middle Ages.[22]
Self-translators
Countries where literary self-translation is predominantly seen are Africa, China, France,[23] India,[24] Spain,[25] and the United States.
Canada has two official languages, English and French, and the national literature includes work in both languages. Nancy Huston, Antonio D'Alfonso, and other authors self-translate in both languages.
China
Lin Yutang (1895–1976) is one of the earliest self-translators from China. Another prominent self-translator is Eileen Chang, who translated some of her books into English.[29]
Self-translation is prominent amongst Catalan, Galician[45] and Basque writers.
The most well known self-translators are Carme Riera (Catalan-Spanish),[46]Manuel Rivas (Galician-Spanish)[45] and Bernardo Atxaga (Basque-Spanish).[47]
The song cycles "there..." and "Sing, Poetry" on the 2011 contemporary classical album Troika consist of musical settings of Russian poems with their English self-translations by Joseph Brodsky and Vladimir Nabokov, respectively.[53]
Further reading
Non-literary self-translation
Jung, Verena (2002): English-German Self-Translation of Academic Texts and its Relevance for Translation Theory and Practice Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
Literary self-translation
Anselmi, Simona (2012): On self-translation. An exploration in self-translators’ teloi and strategies. Milano, Led.
Berlina, Alexandra (2014): Brodsky Translating Brodsky: Poetry in Self-Translation. New York: Bloomsbury.
Beaujour, Elizabeth Klosty (1989): Alien Tongues: Bilingual Russian Writers of the 'First' Emigration. Ithaca: Cornell UP.
^ abAlan Warren Friedman, Charles Rossman, Dina Sherzer(Eds.) (1987): Beckett Translating/Translating Beckett. Pennsylvania State University Press.
^Grutman, Rainier (2009): "Self-translation". In: Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. Ed. Mona Baker and Gabriela Saldanha. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge. pp. 257-260.
^See Jacqueline Risset, "Joyce Translates Joyce", in Comparative Criticism, 6 (1984), pp. 3-21, where Joyce's self-translation is regarded as an authorial variation of the text in progress.
^See Dieter Lamping, "Die literarische Übersetzung als de-zentrale Struktur: Das Paradigma der Selbstübersetzung", in Harald Kittel (ed.), Geschichte, System, Literarische Übersetzung / Histories, Systems, Literary Translations, Berlin, 1992, p. 212-227.
^See Rainier Grutman, "Self-translation", in Mona Baker and Gabriela Saldanha (eds.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, London, 2008, p. 258.
^Rainier Grutman, "Self-translation", in Mona Baker and Gabriela Saldanha (eds.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, London, 2008, p. 259.
^For a self-translation from Italian into German, English and French see [1]
^Alejandro Saravia is a Bolivian-Canadian writer. His poetry book Lettres de Nootka is written in English, French and Spanish.
^See Alide Cagidemetrio, "Trilinguismo letterario: il caso americano di Luigi Donato Ventura", in Furio Brugnolo e Vincenzo Orioles (eds.), Eteroglossia e plurilinguismo letterario. II. Plurilinguismo e letteratura, Roma, 2002, pp. 377-388.
^See Leonard Forster, The Poet's Tongues. Multilingualism in Literature, Cambridge, 1970, p. 30 ff.
^For Scotland and Ireland see Christopher Whyte, "Against Self-Translation", in Translation and Literature, 11/1 (2002), pp. 64-71 and Richard Brown, "Bog Poems and Book Poems. Doubleness, Self-Translation and Pun in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon", in Neil Corcoran (ed.), The Chosen Ground. Essays on the Contemporary Poetry of Northern Ireland, Bridgend, 1992, pp. 171-188. For a case from the former Soviet Union see Munnavarkhon Dadazhanova, "Both Are Primary. An Author's Translation is a Creative Re-Creation", in Soviet Studies in Literature, 20/4 (1984), pp. 67-79. For Catalan, Galician and Basque as opposed to (Castilian) Spanish see Pilar Arnau i Segarra et al. (eds.), Escribir entre dos lenguas. Escritores catalanes y la elección de la lengua literaria, Kassel, 2002; Christian Lagarde (ed.), Écrire en situation bilingue. Perpignan, 2004; Milton Azevedo, "Sobre les dues versions de Els Argonautes/Los Argonautas de Baltasar Porcel", in Suzanne S. Hintz et al. (eds.), Essays in Honor of Josep M. Sola-Sole. Linguistic and Literary Relations of Catalan and Castilian, New York, 1996, 53-67; Ute Heinemann, Schriftsteller als sprachliche Grenzgänger. Literarische Verarbeitung von Mehrsprachigkeit, Sprachkontakt und Sprachkonflikt in Barcelona. Wien, 1998. For Belgium's bilingual writers between and shortly after the World Wars see Rainier Grutman, "L'écrivain flamand et ses langues. Note sur la diglossie des périphéries", in Revue de l'Institut de sociologie, 60 (1990-1991), pp. 115-28 and R. G., "Bilinguisme et diglossie: comment penser la différence linguistique dans les littératures francophones?", in L. D'hulst et J.-M. Moura (eds.), Les études littéraires francophones: état des lieux, Lille, 2003, p. 113-126.
^For Luigi Pirandello as self-translator from Sicilian to Italian see Luciana Salibra, "Liolà. Pirandello autotraduttore dal siciliano", in Bolletino del Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, 13 (1977), pp. 257-292
^ See, for example, Zarema Kumakhova, Joseph Brodsky as self-translator. Analysis of lexical changes in his self-translations, Dissertation, Michigan State University, 2005 and Elizabeth K. Beaujour, "Translation and Self-Translation", in Vladimir E. Alexandrov (ed.), The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov, New York, 1995, pp. 714-725
^Brian Fitch, Beckett and Babel: An Investigation into the State of the Bilingual Work, Toronto, 1988, p. 125.
^See Christopher Whyte, "Against Self-Translation", in Translation and Literature, 11/1 (2002), pp. 64-71
^Hokenson, Jan & Marcella Munson (2007): The Bilingual Text: History and Theory of Literary Self-Translation. St. Jerome Pub.
^Brink, André (2003): "English and the Afrikaans Writer". In: Steven G. Kellman Switching languages. Translingual writers reflect on their craft. University of Nebraska Press, p. 218.
^Marshall, Christine (2007): "A change of tongue. Antjie Krog's Poetry in English". In: Scrutiny 2. Issues in English studies in southern Africa 12/1, pp. 77-92.
^Domenico D'Oria, "Calvino traduit par Calvino", in Lectures, 4-5 (1980), pp. 177-193.
^Maria Corti, "Traduzione e autotraduzione in Beppe Fenoglio", in Premio Città di Monselice per una traduzione letteraria. Atti del seconda Convegno sui problemi della traduzione letteraria, 3 (1974), pp. 50-54.
^Gianfranco Folena, "Goldoni traduttore di se stesso", Comunicazione al Circolo linguistico-filologico di Padova (1972), later entitled "Il francese di Goldoni", in Atti del Colloquio dell'Accademia dei Lincei, Il Goldoni in Francia, Roma, 1972, pp. 71-76; Laurence Boudart, "Goldoni, traducteur de lui-même", in Çedille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, 4 (2008), pp. 45-55.
^Luciana Salibra, "Liolà. Pirandello autotraduttore dal siciliano", in Bolletino del Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, 13 (1977), pp. 257-292
^Giuseppe Ungaretti, traduit par lui-même et Jean Lescure, Collection bilingue de poésie, Paris, 1970; Giuseppe E. Sansone, "Ungaretti autotraduttore", in Lavoro Critico, 28 (1989), pp. 13-21.
^Waters, Alyson (2011): "Filling in the blanks. Raymond Federman, Self-translator". In: Jeffrey R. Di Leo: Federman's Fictions. Innovation, Theory, and the Holocaust. SUNY Press, pp. 63-75.
^Rosario Ferré (1995): "On Destiny, Language, and Translation or: Ophelia Adrift on the C&O Canal". In: A. Dingwaney, (ed.): Between languages and cultures. Translation and cross-cultural texts. University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 39-49.
^Ariel Dorfman (2004): Footnotes to a double life. In: Wendy Lesser: The genius of language. Fifteen writers reflect on their mother tongues. Pantheon Books, pp. 206-216.
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