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Louis Ndong
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2017.03.002
University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
The article deals with the translation of German poetry into Wolof and is based on Tamsir Annes’s translation of German poems under the title Téere-Woy yi/ Das Buch der Lieder. My purpose in this paper is to answer the question of how elements of the vocabulary of sciences (literature and philosophy) as well as cultural specific items are rendered in the Wolof target text. Therefore, in this work, I explore methods and strategies of translation like borrowings, paraphrases, and analyze furthermore some differences noticeable in the translation of some poems at the cultural level. These analysis-steps enable the investigation of, contextually, the central issue of “cultural translatability” and the reception of translation of European poetry into African languages in general and German poetry into Wolof in particular. The article also focuses on the importance of the reception of German poetry in Wolof as a means of intercultural communication between German and Wolof-speaking countries but as means to develop African languages like Wolof in which the translation of the selected poems has been operated.
translation, poetry, cultural, strategies, intercultural communication
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