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Title Self-Translation and The Creative Process: A Critical Analysis of Tehmina Durrani’s Blasphemy

Author(s) Sara Noor

Abstract The research aims to examine the process of self-translation in the self-translated novel Blasphemy by evaluating translation strategies used by the author Tehmina Durrani while self-translating the novel. Moreover, creativity in translation involves the techniques and strategies a translator uses to accurately communicate the culture of a source text in a target text, beyond mere literal translation. The research is qualitative in nature and using the theoretical framework tailored from Vinay and Darbelnet (1995) model of translation strategies and Venuti (1995) concept of foreignization and domestication, the researcher scrutinized the data by analyzing individual instances (sentences) for borrowing, calque, equivalence, adaptation, modulation, transposition and literal translation from various chapters of text. The findings of the research pointed out that the author made use of various translation strategies such as borrowing, literal translation and others along with lexical choices in order to translate cultural norms. Moreover, the author also made use of domestication and foreignization techniques in order to maintain the source text sense in the target text. It was found out that, due to poor lexical choices in some instances, the translation was unable to accurately convey the cultural norms and customs of the source text in the target text. In order to improve cross-cultural communication and maintain the authenticity of the original text, the self-translator should give equal weightage to linguistic appropriateness and cultural transferability by making correct lexical choices.

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Department English

Language English

Publication Date 2025-02-19

Subject English Linguistics

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