Too invisible to be invisible?
Despite recent efforts to implement the concepts of domestication and foreignization into the study of comic book translations (Borodo 2018; Van de Wiele and Pintor Iranzo 2023), the broader notion of visibility has yet to be explored within this area of research. This is surprising given both the c...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Comicalités
2025
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | Despite recent efforts to implement the concepts of domestication and foreignization into the study of comic book translations (Borodo 2018; Van de Wiele and Pintor Iranzo 2023), the broader notion of visibility has yet to be explored within this area of research. This is surprising given both the centrality of this concept within translation studies (Freeth 2024, 7), and the position of comic book translators into Dutch, the latter having been described as “perhaps the most invisible of all book translators” (Coumans 2008, 11, my translation).To apply the notion of invisibility coined and developed by Lawrence Venuti (1986; 1998; 2008; 2018) to a medium in which the textual and the visual are in constant interaction (Groensteen 2014, 15), the concept is broadened to include both paratextual (Freeth 2022; 2024) and textual (Ramière 2019) translator visibilities. This contribution does so by considering the (para)textual translator visibilities of René van de Weijer, the first systematically mentioned Dutch translator of Francophone Belgian comics according to the BELTRANS corpus. This paper will look at the interplay between multiple, sometimes diverging translator visibilities within often unequal transnational processes of comic book translation, and how these visibilities simultaneously redefine these works and their targeted readerships. |
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