TY - JOUR
TI - Kipling in Polish: The Ironic Face of the Poet of the Empire 
AU - Zabłocka, Marta Anna
TI - Kipling in Polish: The Ironic Face of the Poet of the Empire 
AB - 
	This article looks at Polish translations of three selected short stories by Rudyard Kipling in order to examine how translation affects the ironic tropes found in those texts. Mateo’s typology of techniques for handling irony in translation (1995) is used to show how this rhetorical device works within the broader cultural and historical context. It appears that the way Polish translators in the early 1900s interpreted irony in contemporary colonial fiction depended on their ability to recognize social problems in the British Empire, to identify the distinctive British sense of humour, and to understand the realities of colonial life. The short stories under discussion are Georgie Porgie, 1888 (translated by Feliks Chwalibóg, 1909), The Limitations of Pambe Serang, 1889 (Feliks Chwalibóg, 1910) and The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes, 1885 (unknown translator, 1900).
VL - Issues in English
IS - Special Issue 2018 – (Post)colonial Translation
PY - 2018
SN - 1425-6851
C1 - 1689-1864
SP - 64
EP - 88
DO - 10.4467/16891864ePC.18.003.9825
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/kipling-in-polish-the-ironic-face-of-the-poet-of-the-empire
KW - Rudyard Kipling
KW - translation studies
KW - irony
KW - colonial fiction