A Comparison of the Strategies for Translating Racial Terminology in Harper Lee’s Novels into Slovenian and German

Janko Trupej

doi:10.4312/an.58.2.75-92

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Janko Trupej

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/an.58.2.75-92

Keywords:

To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, racial terminology, translation

Abstract

This article addresses the strategies used to translate terms for black people in the novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman into Slovenian and German; these literary works were translated into both languages during the same periods. The extent to which the connotative meaning of a specific term from the original culture was preserved in a certain target culture is analysed and the potential influence of the translation strategies on the perception of the novels is discussed.

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