성차에 따른 성담론 번역 양상 비교 -셰익스피어의 『오셀로』 번역을 중심으로-

Abstract

Nowadays, translator's identity including gender becomes an important issue in translation. After the women's movement has problematized language, many academic criticism has tried to reveal the ideological aspects of canons translated by patriarchal male translators and to recover lost female translators. In this study, Korean versions of Shakespeare's Othello translated by three male translators and three female translators are compared,which was obviously reached to an conclusion that gender difference brings about the different translation. As far, language, a man-made artifact, was made to reflect only men's ideas. In general male translators sticked to the original meaning of such a patriarchal language and still conserve male bias and patriarchal authority in their translation. While, women translators have tried to get rid of oppressive aspects from the language and to provide modern readers with new concepts of gender. They have tried to find and use new expressions to get beyond the conventions of patriarchal language in Shakespeare's texts. However, what is a good translation becomes a little sophisticated problem when we think the ethics of translation. Translators who are too politicized may take offence at the source text. Translators should try to avoid severe intervention for their ideology and to be as neutral politically as they can even when they try a new translation for the new readers. Even though we cannot erase our gender identity completely in translation, we should pay attention not to pursue the conscious gender-biased translation. It has the danger to pervert the meaning or message of the source text to the target readers.