Autors: Nezināms
Translation
is, of course, a rewriting of an original text. All rewritings, whatever their
intention, reflect a certain ideology and a poetics and as such manpulate
literature to function in a given society in a given way. Rewriting is
manipulation, undertaken in the service of power, and in its positive aspect
can help in the evolution of a literature and a society. Rewritings can
introduce new concepts, new genres, new devices, and the history of literary innovation, of the shaping power
of one culture upon another. But rewriting can also repress innovation, distort
and contain, and in an age of ever increasing manipulation af all kinds, the
study of the manipulative translation can help us towards a greater awareness
of the world in which we live.
