A Thousand and One Voices of Where the Wild Things Are: Translations and Transmediations
Capitolo di libro
Data di Pubblicazione:
2020
Citazione:
A Thousand and One Voices of Where the Wild Things Are: Translations and Transmediations / Sezzi, Annalisa. - (2020), pp. 269-290.
Abstract:
This chapter sets out to explore the different voices that can be heard in
the first Italian translation and the more recent retranslation of a classic
picturebook: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
Picturebooks derive their meaning from the relationship between
words and illustrations. Lawrence Sipe defines this interrelation as “synergistic,”
and shows how the reader’s oscillation between the verbal and
visual material can be seen as a form of “transmediation”. However, this
interpretative process turns out to be more complex as picturebooks come
to life through the adults’ reading performance. Thus, the chorus of the
discursive presences detectable in children’s texts and in their translations
(O’Sullivan, Comparative Children’s Literature), such as the voice of the
narrator and of the translator, is joined by the voice of the adult reading
aloud.
Since retranslations act as sounding boards for both textual and contextual
voices (Alvstad and Assis Rosa), the aim of this analysis is to identify
the changes of the voices in the translation (in 1969) and retranslation
(in 2018) of Sendak’s chef d’oeuvre.
the first Italian translation and the more recent retranslation of a classic
picturebook: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.
Picturebooks derive their meaning from the relationship between
words and illustrations. Lawrence Sipe defines this interrelation as “synergistic,”
and shows how the reader’s oscillation between the verbal and
visual material can be seen as a form of “transmediation”. However, this
interpretative process turns out to be more complex as picturebooks come
to life through the adults’ reading performance. Thus, the chorus of the
discursive presences detectable in children’s texts and in their translations
(O’Sullivan, Comparative Children’s Literature), such as the voice of the
narrator and of the translator, is joined by the voice of the adult reading
aloud.
Since retranslations act as sounding boards for both textual and contextual
voices (Alvstad and Assis Rosa), the aim of this analysis is to identify
the changes of the voices in the translation (in 1969) and retranslation
(in 2018) of Sendak’s chef d’oeuvre.
Tipologia CRIS:
Capitolo/Saggio
Keywords:
Translation - retranslation - transmediation - picturebooks - voices
Elenco autori:
Sezzi, Annalisa
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Titolo del libro:
Translating and Transmediating Children’s Literature, Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature.