A comparison of the strategies for translating racial terminology in Harper Lee’s novels into Slovenian and German

Trupej, Janko (author)

This article addresses the strategies used to translate terms for black people in the novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman into Slovenian and German; these literary works were translated into both languages during the same periods. The extent to which the connotative meaning of a specific term from the original culture was preserved in a certain target culture is analysed and the potential influence of the translation strategies on the perception of the novels is discussed.

• Language: English
• Keywords: American literature, translation, racial terminology
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2025
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 75-92
• Numbering: [Letn.] 58, [št.] 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-180477
• UDC: [821.111(73).09Lee H.:81'255.4=163.6=112.2]:323.14
• ISSN on article: 0567-784X
• DOI: 10.4312/an.58.2.75-92
• COBISS.SI-ID: 255598851
• Publication date in RUL: 10.03.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Acta neophilologica
• Shortened title: Acta neophilol.
• Publisher: Filozofska fakulteta, Filozofska fakulteta, Znanstveni inštitut Filozofske fakultete, Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani, = University of Ljubljana Press
• ISSN: 0567-784X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 16130818

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• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Primerjava strategij za prevajanje rasnega izrazoslovja v romanih Harper Lee v slovenščino in nemščino

Abstract

Članek se ukvarja s strategijami, ki so bile uporabljene za prevajanje poimenovanj za temnopolte v romanih Če ubiješ oponašalca in Pojdi, postavi stražarja v slovenščino ter nemščino; literarni deli sta bili v posamezen jezik prevedeni v istem obdobju. Analizirano je, v kolikšni meri je bil konotativni pomen določenega poimenovanja iz izvirne kulture ohranjen tudi v posamezni ciljni kulturi. Članek se ukvarja tudi s potencialnim vplivom uporabljenih prevajalskih strategij na dojemanje romanov.

• Keywords: ameriška književnost, prevajanje, rasno izrazoslovje