Translating Nouzha Fassi Fihri's La Baroudeuse: A Case Study in ...

To find out more about how these translators perceived their imagined
audiences while translating works similar to La Baroudeuse, I generated a
questionnaire of the nine following questions.
1) When you translated [the title of one or more translations], did you have
an audience in mind?
2) If so, what individuals might you list as belonging to this audience?
(yourself? the author? your publisher? a professor you had? classmates in
one of your courses? professional readers? non-professional readers?)
3) How strong was your awareness of this audience?
4) Did you aim to accommodate or to challenge the expectations of your
audience?
5) How would you characterize your attitude toward the original audience
and cultural context?
6) How would you characterize your attitude toward the audience and
cultural context of the translation?
7) How would you characterize the general tone and purpose of your
translation?
8) How would you characterize what you imagined would be your
audience's attitude toward the text and the cultural context it conveys?
9) Describe some of the decisions you made while translating in which
you felt the influence of, sought to impose your influence on, or otherwise
anticipated the responses of your audience?
These questions assume that every translator writes for an imagined audience and
ask the respondents to clarify their perception of and interaction with their
audiences during the translation of one or more specific narratives, the ones
discussed earlier in this chapter. Each respondent was invited to interpret the
questions liberally and encouraged to view the questions as springboards for
discussions and comments about the relationship between translator and audience.
With these questions, I hoped to discover similarities and idiosyncrasies of
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