TY - JOUR
TI - Czy strategia redukcji może służyć egzotyzacji, czyli gdzie się podziała Sierotka Marysia w angielskim przekładzie
AU - Brzózka, Aleksander
TI - Czy strategia redukcji może służyć egzotyzacji, czyli gdzie się podziała Sierotka Marysia w angielskim przekładzie
AB - 
	May Reduction Serve Foreignization? What Happened to Sierotka Marysia in English Translation?
	The translation of Maria Konopnicka’s O Krasnoludkach i sierotce Marysi (The Brownie
	Scouts) into English is an interesting fusion of two translation strategies that are usually
	considered mutually exclusive. At fi rst glance, this careful and faithful rendering of
	passages describing Polish tradition, culture, history, geography and folklore is a good
	example of foreignization. Taking the reader who represents a dominant culture on
	a trip to an unknown peripheral culture, it seems to stand in opposition to Lefevere’s
	understanding how cultural capital and asymmetries between cultures infl uence the
	translator’s decision to adapt source culture’s exotic elements to the target reader’s
	horizon of expectations. Thus, her decision not to domesticate the original places
	Katherine Żuk-Skarszewska (nee Hadley) in a group of translators called bridgeheads
	by Cay Dollerup. They aim at familiarizing the target language audience with most
	interesting and valuable aspects of the source language culture.
	Yet this assumption is undermined by Żuk-Skarszewska’s frequent use of reduction
	technique, which helps her to deal with the culture-specifi c elements she considers less
	important. Instead of a typical adaptation strategy, in The Brownie Scouts two radically
	different solutions co-exist: efforts to faithfully preserve some items and fragments
	characteristic of the source language culture are counterbalanced by decisions to cut
	other elements and passages in order to make room for what the translator judges more
	worthwhile. As a result, reduction becomes an integral part of the translation strategy,
	and it is used to control the intensity of the overall foreignizing effect. This unusual
	strategy becomes even more interesting to observe, as the elements the translator gives
	up most readily are usually those related to the child (characters, subject-matter and
	folklore). Paradoxically, it is children who lose most in this translation of the book
	about them.
VL - 2009
IS - Issue 22-23 – Baśń w przekładzie
PY - 2011
SN - 1425-6851
C1 - 1689-1864
SP - 146
EP - 158
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/czy-strategia-redukcji-moze-sluzyc-egzotyzacji-czyli-gdzie-sie-podziala-sierotka-marysia-w-angielskim-przekladzie
KW - children’s literature
KW - folklore
KW - Konopnicka
KW - translation
KW - foreignization