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Where Alice and Hlapić lived: altered settings and reshaped storyworlds in translation

Translations of children’s literature usually offer readers in the target culture information about the source culture of the original text by conveying its settings. Sometimes the original storyworld (Ryan 2014) is anchored in a specific national culture by means of toponyms or other indicators of a real geographic and historical context. Such indicators include names of countries, cities and villages, as well as those of the people or the language spoken in the represented storyworld. In this way, the readers of translated texts are exposed to diverse components of another culture in relation to their own. The aim of this paper is to analyse the changes of the settings in the storyworlds of the translations of the Croatian children’s classic The Strange Adventures of Hlapić the Apprentice (Brlić-Mažuranić 1913) into several languages caused by the adoption or the replacement of the only toponym mentioned in the novel, Vienna, as well as in the storyworlds of nine different translations of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll 1865) into Croatian caused by the adoption or omission of explicit indicators of England and English. The results are interpreted with respect to implications for the storyworld in individual translations. Based on the findings, a typology is designed of translation strategies used to convey settings partly defined by real world references and their possible implications for storyworld changes.

translating children’s literature ; culture specific items ; storyworld

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