Polish reception of translated postcolonial literature 1970–89. A metametonymic study

Goluch, Dorota

2021. Polish reception of translated postcolonial literature 1970–89. A metametonymic study. Heydel, Magda and Ziemann, Zofia, eds. Retracing the History of Literary Translation in Poland. People, Politics, Poetics, Routledge Research on Translation and Interpreting History, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 144-162.

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Abstract

Featuring a large-scale reception study, this chapter illuminates a little-known topic in the history of Polish literary translation. It examines Polish reviews of translated postcolonial prose (1970–89) which explicitly discuss the reviewed texts as translations; it demonstrates that the reviewers expect the translations to provide knowledge about postcolonial peoples or to reflect the literariness of postcolonial writing. The reviewers’ attitudes towards translation are framed – but not determined – by Cold War politics and Orientalising discourses. Furthermore, this chapter contributes to theoretical discussions on translating postcolonial literature. Based on my empirical study, I show that the effects of a norm-breaking, foreignising translation strategy are context-dependent, and I propose adding what I term ‘non-standard fluency’ to Lawrence Venuti’s discussion of fluency. My analysis also engages with Maria Tymoczko’s metametonymic approach to translation: I argue for the importance of Jakobsonian selection to her approach and suggest that reception research be added to its methodological repertoire.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Modern Languages
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PB Modern European Languages P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	postcolonial translation metonymics translation effect translation fluency reception Cold War Ngũgi wa Thiong’o Zofia Kierszys
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9780367343750
Last Modified:	02 Oct 2025 12:25
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/143135

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