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Theorizing about Translation of Multilingual and Multiscriptal Texts: David Albahari’s “Learning Cyrillic” and Its Translation by Ellen Elias-Bursać |
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| Creator | Višnja Krstić |
| Title | Theorizing about Translation of Multilingual and Multiscriptal Texts: David Albahari’s “Learning Cyrillic” and Its Translation by Ellen Elias-Bursać |
| Publisher | IATIS and the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) at Dublin City University |
| Publication Year | 2564 |
| Journal Title | New Voices in Translation Studies |
| Journal Vol. | 25 |
| Journal No. | 1 |
| Page no. | 130-157 |
| Keyword | intralingual translationinterlingual translation, source/target language, literary translation, minimal unit of translation |
| URL Website | https://newvoices.arts.chula.ac.th/ |
| Website title | New Voices in Translation Studies |
| ISSN | 1819-5644 |
| Abstract | Albahari’s short story “Learning Cyrillic”, translated from Serbian into English by Elias- Bursać, combines three languages – Serbian, English, and Blackfoot – and two scripts – Latin and Cyrillic. This article uses the story and its English translation to examine the destabilisation patterns in the concepts of intra- and interlingual translation that occur in a multilingual text. The paper argues that translational relations are not given but rather contextually determined in each case. Elias-Bursać’s multilingually and graphically aware translation disrupts the traditionally predictable behaviour of ‘source’ and ‘target’ by obscuring the presumed one-to-one correspondence between them. In arguing for a scalable minimal unit of translation, the paper adapts Jin’s (2017) metonymic approach to ‘close’ and ‘distant reading’ to fit the translational agenda. The asymmetry between the ‘source’ and ‘target’, along with a scalable minimal unit of translation, reinforces the pertinence of a contextual framework in the study of multilingual literature’s translational relations. |
