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Translating Narrative Space in Children’s Fiction Bronze and Sunflower From Chinese to English

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  • Meijuan Zhao
  • Lay Hoon Ang
  • Sabariah Md Rashid
  • Florence Haw Ching Toh

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Translating narrative space is a necessity due to its fundamental role in children’s literature. To date, studies have shown that efforts to examine the strategy in rendering the space issues in children’s literature translation remain scarce. Responding to that, the paper aims to explore how narrative space is transferred from one language to another. The theoretical framework is based on Ryan et al.’s model of narrative space and Baker’s framing strategies. A qualitative approach is designed to study the renowned Chinese children’s literature Bronze and Sunflower and its English version. A total of 146 examples are purposively selected as the samples. The findings show that selective appropriation is the most frequently used framing strategy. Also, it is observed that the translator prefers to omit some repeated settings and descriptions of spatial frames even though the source text elaborates them, consequently softening the sense of space in the target context. The findings may provide new insights into a better understanding of spatial issues in the translation of children’s literature.

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  • Meijuan Zhao & Lay Hoon Ang & Sabariah Md Rashid & Florence Haw Ching Toh, 2022. "Translating Narrative Space in Children’s Fiction Bronze and Sunflower From Chinese to English," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(1), pages 21582440211, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:sagope:v:12:y:2022:i:1:p:21582440211068498
    DOI: 10.1177/21582440211068498
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    1. Raid Althagafy, 2023. "The heterotopia of the palace in Abdo Khal’s Throwing Sparks (2009)," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-8, December.
    2. Li Wang & Lay Hoon Ang & Fumeng Gao & Hazlina Abdul Halim, 2023. "The relationality of parts for narrative identity constitution in the corporate profile translations of China’s multinational corporations," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-11, December.
    3. Jianxin Yang, 2024. "Narrative reconstruction of events in novel translation: A case study of the English translation of Xuemo’s works," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-12, December.

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