Freeth, P orcid.org/0000-0003-3169-4853 (2021) “Germany asks: is it OK to laugh at Hitler?” Translating humour and Germanness in the paratexts of Er ist wieder da and Look Who’s Back. Translation Spaces: A multidisciplinary, multimedia, and multilingual journal of translation, 10 (1). pp. 115-137. ISSN 2211-3711
Abstract
Within imagological approaches, paratexts can provide insights into how the Other of translated literature is presented to a new target audience. So, within a transnational context, such as Germany and Britain’s shared experience of the Second World War, can the source and target-culture paratexts invoke the same images? Through a case study of Er ist wieder da, a novel that satirises Germany’s relationship with its National Socialist past, and the British publication of the English translation Look Who’s Back, this article finds that while the novel’s humour is reframed by the British publisher, the novel’s controversial position within Germany’s Vergangenheitsbewältigung discourse remains intrinsic to the paratexts published in the British press. As such, this article demonstrates the transnational relevance of individual national characteristics to the paratextual framing of translated literature, the value of paratexts as objects of imagological study, and the methodological benefits of distinguishing between production- and reception-side paratexts.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. This is an author produced version of an article published in Translation Spaces. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | paratexts; Hitler; Vergangenheitsbewältigung; translation; imagology |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2021 09:30 |
Last Modified: | 01 Sep 2021 13:24 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing |
Identification Number: | 10.1075/ts.20003.fre |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:173415 |