Gender And Translation

The combination of translation and gender arouses doubt and betrayal towards the propositions of traditional translation theories. And the feminist translation practice also brings great impact and challenge on traditional translation thoughts. The connection between translation and gender has a long history. According to traditional translation theories, translation should keep the same with the original text in the content, form and style. In the traditional view, woman is always dependent on man, and belongs to the weak group.Therefore, translation is compared to a woman or a waitress. This concept is a contempt and devaluation towards woman and translation.The Western feminist translators show their female identities in the translation activities. They are confident that they can doubt about the original texts from the feminist perspective, and if the concepts in the original texts are opposite to their thoughts, they have their right to intervene and modify the original texts. In 2002, the Western feminist translation research began to influence the translation circle in our country. This year, many researchers explore the nature and characteristics of feminist translation from different perspectives. But few people make use of the feminist translation theories to analyze translation practice. So it is expected to be further studied.I choose Bing Xin's translations as my research materials, because she is a woman translator with strong feminist consciousness. After the Opium War, influenced by Western concepts of civil rights, and the equality between two genders, Bing Xin produces tremendous literary works with feminist consciousness. Bing Xin's gender consciousness to a large extent is influenced by her"philosophy of love". In her literary works, she glorifies the love of mother, and describes their greatness and toughness, unselfishness and calmness. What's more, Bing Xin advocates the new image of good wife and mother. On the one hand, she thinks women should enjoy the equal rights with men, including the education right. On the other hand, Bing Xin emphasizes women's importance in a family. As a kind of ideology, Bing Xin's feminist consciousness is certainly to influence her translation thoughts and practices. Reading Bing Xin's translations, we can find her special feminist consciousness. Influenced by this thought, she greatly glorifies woman's virtues, tries to eliminate the gender discrimination in the originals and improves woman's status in family and society.This essay consists of five chapters. In the introduction, I make a literature review towards the study of gender and translation as well as the study of Bing Xin's translation, and...