중국 소수문학의 문화 번역을 위한 ‘생소화 효과’에 관한 소고

Abstract

Translating a text in Chinese minority literature is one of the domains that needs to be actively researched in Chinese-Korean translation studies. The problems in translating the text in minority literature that has not received much attention tend to be more serious, and this is largely due to cultural heterogeneity and linguistic hybridity. Translation of minority literature requires a strategy in accordance with its identity; it is ‘minoritizing translation,’ and this is also called ‘foreignization’ by Venuti. This paper (i) argues that translation of Chinese minority literature with linguistic hybridity expresses unfamiliarity as a strategy, and (ii) presents a strategy of defamiliarization, which is based on Brecht’s alienation effect, assuming that unfamiliarity from cultural heterogeneity and linguistic hybridity can be relieved by minoritizing translation. When readers encounter a text of unknown culture with a creative intervention of a translator, they are more likely to accept the unfamiliarity easily. This paper is an initial study that discusses cultural translation based on linguistic hybridity of the text in Chinese minority literature. The actual application to Chinese-Korean translation is called for in future studies. In subsequent research, a case study will be conducted, which analyzes a re-written text expressing defamiliarization between Chinese and Korean cultures.