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Retranslating The Second Sex into Finnish : Choices, Practices, and Ideas (2017)

Ruonakoski, E. (2017). Retranslating The Second Sex into Finnish : Choices, Practices, and Ideas. In B. Mann, & M. Ferrari (Eds.), On ne naît pas femme: on le devient : The Life of a Sentence (pp. 331-354). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190608811.001.0001/oso-9780190608811-chapter-18

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Ruonakoski, Erika

Parent publication: On ne naît pas femme: on le devient : The Life of a Sentence

Parent publication editors: Mann, Bonnie; Ferrari, Martina

ISBN: 978-0-19-060881-1

eISBN: 978-0-19-060881-1

Publication year: 2017

Pages range: 331-354

Number of pages in the book: 376

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Place of Publication: New York

Publication country: United States

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190608811.001.0001/oso-9780190608811-chapter-18

Persistent website address: https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190608811.001.0001/oso-9780190608811-chapter-18

Publication open access: Not open

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Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/66027

Abstract

Finnish is one of the few existent Finno-Ugric languages, a language without articles, and with only one, genderless word for the pronouns “she” and “he”. Due to this, the problems faced by the Finnish translators of The Second Sex differed in some ways from those discussed after the publication of the new English translation. This chapter describes the genesis of the second, unabridged Finnish translation, the choices made by the translators as well as the philosophical interpretations motivating those choices. In addition, Beauvoir’s way of understanding the concept of becoming is analyzed. The chapter ends with a discussion of the philosophy of translation and of the reception of the second Finnish translation.

Keywords: translating; translated literature; philosophy

Free keywords: Beauvoir, Simone de; Finnish; Finno-Urgic; philosophy of translation; translation theory; The Second Sex

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Ministry reporting: Yes

Preliminary JUFO rating: 3