Lucia Merecka Borski: The Ambassador of Polish Fairy Tales in America and Her Translation Strategies
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https://doi.org/10.31261/PLS.2024.14.11Keywords:
Translator Studies, Lucia Merecka Borski, children’s literature translation, Polish literature in English translation, translation of fairy talesAbstract
The article highlights the important role of Lucia Merecka Borski, the most active translator of Polish fairy tales into English in the 20th century. Situated within the field of Translator Studies, it poses such questions as: why do translators translate, why do they translate some texts and not others, what motivates them to do
so, and how to interpret their translation choices? Addressing these questions, the article discusses Merecka Borski’s The Jolly Tailor and Other Fairy Tales, repeatedly reprinted in the United States. The text pays special attention to the translation of Polish proper names as well as the cultural and institutional context influencing Merecka Borski’s translation activities.
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