The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (2009) and Its Translation Into Spanish. Feminist Scientific Learning

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https://doi.org/10.20420/Phil.Can.2023.603

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Calpurnia Tate, gender equality, translation, assessment criteria, science

Abstract

This paper analyses the young adult novel The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (2009) by Jacqueline Kelly, and its translation into Spanish. From a feminist approach, it will be studied whether references criticising gender inequality have been maintained or even highlighted (von Flow, 1991). The implementation of Marco Borillo's functional analysis (2001) and Brunette’s assessment criteria (2000) will enable us to conclude that not all nuances have been respected in certain translation strategies. This fact results in slightly modifying the writer’s intention, which does not seem really correct as the novel introduces the evolution of a brave girl who wants to become a female scientist in 1899, and who does not understand traditional social conventions.

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Beatriz M.ª Rodríguez Rodríguez, Universidade de Vigo

Beatriz Mª Rodríguez Rodríguez has been a lecturer in the Department of Translation and Linguistics at the Universidade de Vigo since 2005, and holds a PhD from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (2003). She has mainly lectured on literary translation, and translation from Spanish into English. Her research interests are Didactics of translation and Literary translation criticism (English, Spanish, Galician), focusing on translated children’s and young adult literature. She has published numerous book chapters and articles, and she has participated in several national and international research projects. Since 2019 she is the president of ANILIJ, a Spanish research association on children’s and young adult literature.

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2023-05-31

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Rodríguez Rodríguez, B. M. (2023). The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (2009) and Its Translation Into Spanish. Feminist Scientific Learning. Philologica Canariensia, 29, 325–341. https://doi.org/10.20420/Phil.Can.2023.603

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Vol. 29 (2023)

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