Evaluation of Cultural and Ideological Manipulations in Four Persian Translations of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Hell-Heaven

Zeinab Kaveyaninia, Dianoosh Sanei, Reza Hajimohammadi

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The present paper examined cultural and ideological implications in translation studies. For  this purpose, four Persian translations of Hell-Heaven were chosen. Hell-Heaven is a story adopted from “Unaccustomed Earth” (2008), written by the Indian-American writer, Jhumpa Lahiri.  Therefore, the translations were explored to detect translators’ ideological shifts; in the way that all components of translations were pondered to detect translational adaptations chosen by four translators. The result showed that translators had adopted translational strategies such as addition, deletion and substitution to deal with American and Indian’s cultural and ideological differences. 


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Cultural and ideological implications, critical discourse analysis, translational adaptations, source text, target text

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.5n.4p.53

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