Texts in Translation
There are both benefits and drawbacks within the study of translated literature. The beauty of translated literature is that a whole new abundance of stories and information is opened up to us. We are allowed the opportunity to access what we once did not have access to. Rather than making assumptions about a particular context based on what we have seen in the news and magazines, we can now read book by authors who live in these contexts, and whose lives may be reflected within the literature. So, we are no longer being educated on political issues in the news, we are learning about the actual lifestyle of a context. We can learn about the values and attitudes of a culture, gain multicultural understandings, and through reading texts in translation we can become to be aware of how meaning can change through translation. However, there are some challenges and negative aspects to reading texts in translation. So much of a text could be misunderstood or misinterpreted. For example the m...