ArticleOpen Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.07.004
Analysis of the Influence of Cultural Conflict on Literature Translation—Take Howard Goldblatt’s Translation to Mo Yan’s Death and Life Are Wearing Me Out as an Example
Qianyu Zhang
University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China.
*Corresponding author: Qianyu Zhang
Published: August 21,2023
Abstract
The translation of Death and Life Are Wearing Me Out is an outstanding representative of the English translation of contemporary Chinese literature. It is the divine transference of the ecological, religious, social, and linguistic culture of the original work by the translator that is the key to the translator's success in the overseas market. Language is the expression of the personality of a social group and a means to identify the members of a social group according to its culture. In order to reflect their national consciousness, cultural tradition and other social characteristics, different languages will inevitably adopt different ideographic means to reflect their own cultural characteristics. Through the analysis of English translation examples, this paper indicates that translators can solve the obstacles caused by cultural conflicts in the context of the target language through transla-tion methods like communicative meaning translation, free translation, substitution method cut method incremental translation method annotation method and so on, so that can make the translation closer to the target language readers and promote the effective overseas dissemination of translation work. We must attach attention to the social and cultural differences of different countries and different national cultural traditions, to put ourselves in the translation readers, considering whether they can get and we in the original reading that similar feelings, do not pay attention to the cultural differences, do not solve the cultural conflict caused by the differences, our translation cannot achieve the effect of foreign communication. It is difficult for Chinese literature to reach the world through this bridge.
Keywords
Cultural conflict, literature translation, Death and Life Are Wearing Me Out, Howard Goldblatt
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How to cite this paper
Analysis of the Influence of Cultural Conflict on Literature Translation—Take Howard Goldblatt’s Translation to Mo Yan’s Death and Life Are Wearing Me Out as an Example
How to cite this paper: Qianyu Zhang. (2023) Analysis of the Influence of Cultural Conflict on Literature Translation—Take Howard Goldblatt’s Translation to Mo Yan’s Death and Life Are Wearing Me Out as an Example. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 7(7), 1270-1274.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.07.004