STRATEGIES AND TACTICS FOR RENDERING GENDER STEREOTYPES IN LITERARY PROSE
- Solomiia Khodakovska ,
- Iryna Malyshivska
Abstract
The article examines how gender stereotypes embedded in literary source texts are rendered in translation. Drawing on von Flotow’s feminist translation strategies, supplementing, prefacing/footnoting, and hijacking, alongside lexical, metaphorical, syntactic, and pragmatic tactics, the study shows how translators reproduce, neutralize, or subvert gendered meanings at both macro-and micro-textual levels. The analysis argues that translational choices regarding feminitives, evaluative vocabulary, agency distribution, and dialogue are never ideologically neutral, and calls for translator awareness of their cumulative effect on gender representation.Author Biography
Solomiia Khodakovska
2nd-year Master’s Student; Faculty of Foreign Languages
Iryna Malyshivska
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor
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