Positioning the Autobiographer in the Arabic Translation of Eat, pray, love: A Study of the (re)Framing Techniques | ||||
| CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education | ||||
| Article 12, Volume 66, Issue 1, January 2019, Page 301-322 PDF (1.01 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/opde.2019.133240 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Lubna Adel Sherif Sherif | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| A narrative is a means through which people can experience the world which Mona Baker (2006) defines as the stories people tell themselves about the world to construct reality and guide people’s behaviors. There are various forms of narratives, and the genre of autobiography in which the writer decides to share his/her experience with others is just an example of the ontological narrative where the writer narrates his/her story. The significance of autobiographies as an ontological narrative coincides with the rise of female autobiographers who chronicle their lives to guide other women towards leading a better life. Autobiographers give themselves a certain position in the narrative world which can be subjected to change and alteration when the autobiography is translated into another language. Retaining the autobiographer’s position is one of the challenges facing translators, especially, if the autobiography and its translation do not belong to the same culture. Baker’s (2006) Narrative Theory is one of the theories which can account for the changes occurring to the autobiographer’s position when translated. The paper uses Baker’s (re)framing scheme to examine the repositioning of the autobiographer, Elizabeth Gilbert, in the Arabic translation of Eat, pray, love: One woman’s search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia. The study attempts to identify the (re)framing techniques capable of changing the autobiographer’s. It also highlights the importance of the integration between the Narrative Theory (Baker, 2006) and the Positioning Theory (Davies & Harre, 1990), especially, that the narrative type can change in the translation | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Positioning Theory; Narrative Theory; (re)Framing; Eat; Pray; Love; Autobiography | ||||
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