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Table of Contents Chapter One: Translation Experience ..................................................................... 1 The Text ......................................................................................................... 2 Considering LC1 and LC2 Audiences.......................................................... 13 Sources of Information................................................................................. 20 Other Translations and Translators' Paratexts..................................... 20 Translators........................................................................................... 32 Readers................................................................................................ 40 Chapter Two: A Critical Analysis of the Process of Translating a Post- Colonial Narrative in a Comparative Literature Context............................. 50 A Concept of Translation and Translators ................................................... 56 Elements of the Process................................................................................ 63 Influences That Can Affect This Translation Process.................................. 69 Chapter Three: Comparison of the Initial and Final Versions of the Translation.................................................................................................... 73 Quantitative Variation Analysis................................................................... 74 Ideological Constraints on the Translation................................................... 75 Constraints on Novelistic Prose ................................................................... 80 Sociocultural Constraints ............................................................................. 88 viii
Chapter Four: The Fighter..................................................................................... 97 Appendix A: Interview with Nouzha Fassi Fihri ................................................ 253 Appendix B: Marjolijn de Jager's e-mail response to the questionnaire............. 260 Appendix C: Personal interview with Barbara Parmenter .................................. 261 Appendix D: Catherine Cobham's e-mail response to the questionnaire............ 264 Appendix E: Marilyn Booth's e-mail response to the questionnaire................... 266 References ........................................................................................................... 270 Vita .................................................................................................................... 275 ix
Page 1 and 2: Copyright by Jean Laurie Love El Ha
Page 3 and 4: Translating Nouzha Fassi Fihri's La
Page 5 and 6: Acknowledgements I sincerely thank
Page 7: complete, final version of "The Fig
Page 11 and 12: challenged and reformed in ways tha
Page 13 and 14: night. She plans and carries out hi
Page 15 and 16: soumis, de bien bon, de bien con" [
Page 17 and 18: Unlike her daughters who submit to
Page 19 and 20: Les fleurs, comme une fantaisie de
Page 21 and 22: The shifts from past to future tens
Page 23 and 24: it rather than through the bias of
Page 25 and 26: Arab women, few have more precise i
Page 27 and 28: in our audiences, the novel and the
Page 29 and 30: Fassi Fihri was in a position to ra
Page 31 and 32: and in these cases the translator t
Page 33 and 34: 2002 edition of The American Herita
Page 35 and 36: nonetheless an outsider whose persp
Page 37 and 38: emphasizes universally recognizable
Page 39 and 40: questions of translation approach a
Page 41 and 42: Translators Analysis of these trans
Page 43 and 44: To find out more about how these tr
Page 45 and 46: sentences" and to recreate the aest
Page 47 and 48: She further explains that "people w
Page 49 and 50: paratextual explanations has change
Page 51 and 52: participated intellectually in poli
Page 53 and 54: community. Having the characters--m
Page 55 and 56: If you were a ring, my finger would
Page 57 and 58: Arrivée face à sa nièce, elle ta
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Chapter Two: A Critical Analysis of
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eaders' expectations, thereby augme
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Theorists such as Edward Said and M
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translation. However, in accordance
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attitude toward the original author
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the target audience and its expecta
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literature tends to reflect the cul
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Alternate solutions were judged and
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Others, however, deplore the effect
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This translation sought to challeng
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influence. The language, cultural c
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in with the literary traditions of
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QUANTITATIVE VARIATION ANALYSIS Alt
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tolerance and moderation. This pass
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media. Consequently, most Anglophon
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CONSTRAINTS ON NOVELISTIC PROSE The
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family union through new blood ties
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original journalistic tone was main
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14 o: Les persiennes laissaient dev
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special occasions; when the cooking
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variation in the treatment of trans
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The culturally specific exclamation
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en cadeau à sa fille pour une prem
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translator's perception and applica
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" . . . and chickens with almonds--
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patios, polish the tea trays, and s
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They were children, and they remain
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ut he was more so, and he had total
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The three old people raised their h
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Mina, his younger sister, intervene
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He was already there, sitting on th
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She ran away from home one morning,
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"Let's not get upset," he intervene
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Sometimes her mother came to visit,
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sharif, in spite of his material po
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"I was on a business trip in Madrid
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ambergris, your smile sweet as a su
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eliefs, and trampled our traditions
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eturn. Most of them only knew of hi
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In the side alleyways, one could se
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lack ears," as they called the Sene
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"What's new?" Sharif asked the arti
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him with a pumice stone, anoint him
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Kenza had inherited her father's ga
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Oh, rosy cheeks, red rose of Sidjil
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Kenza contemplated her girls for wh
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The family gathered around a cousco
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"We'll force them!" "We are a free
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future. But can you prevent the you
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Tayeb, was under house arrest and f
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mules loaded with produce were turn
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one another on makeshift platforms,
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these young men as solid as rock. I
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nonexistence? The suicide of dreams
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He began to decipher the sky for he
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violence. They were peaceable citiz
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temper. The neighbor men and women
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Carrying his slippers--he wanted to
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Great," which Sharif took as a welc
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obstinate character. She is stubbor
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Who was this hero who came so late
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humanity. It is the third monotheis
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egular army. We simply meant to sho
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drowned in the gurgle of the wall f
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man had come. They went down slopin
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Walking around the exposed bodies,
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"'France was no longer the invincib
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Finally, they saw a faint light and
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looking like scarecrows set up to k
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with suddenly dies, you get caught
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"Now he is dead, and I still have t
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athes and warms new chicks. So I be
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You have left me like one who cooks
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the men who stood there looking at
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Another used a ladle to fill bucket
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"exclude them from their own cultur
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They were still forced to help him,
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they neglected their old father. He
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wondering eyes of a dada who was ba
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Their love was not guilty. They lov
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acelets of the leader.' I even had
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"I want her to be free like the ant
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adolescents. Lalla Kenza's father h
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Never had anyone seen a vicarious p
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The two women went forward, one wit
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When questioned, the woman who was
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Then he reached out and grabbed the
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Her dada held a silver platter with
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to rest his head on his beloved's c
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"He who claims to be strong dies of
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slave who still has tree bark stuck
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"It has not satisfied my thirst!" "
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people, so vulnerable and ancient,
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"Don't worry about it. I had my sha
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conjures images, brings them alive
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The young men arrived exhausted and
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calculations. However, the revenue
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Everything went as she had wished.
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ut beneath her nobly arched forehea
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Kenza left the world and its confli
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Fassi Native of Fez. Filali A famil
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Traditions of the Prophet Refers to
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Oui, l'histoire de Le Ressac, l'his
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littérature et de la poésie en pa
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the household. She is a second moth
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Appendix B: Marjolijn de Jager's e-
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that right. I wanted it to be a kin
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Appendix D: Catherine Cobham's e-ma
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Appendix E: Marilyn Booth's e-mail
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the most important aspect or result
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References Abouzeid, Leila. Year of
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Johnson-Davies, Denys. E-mail to th
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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Sa
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