2026· International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences· Vol 11, pp. 407-415· 0 citations
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The paper explores the intricate process of translating the revolutionary Urdu poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz into English, and how linguistic change influences the meaning, emotion and politics of the poetry. This paper examines the conflict of fidelity and interpretation that is a part of poetic translation by closely reading four classic poems: “Mujhse Pehli Si Mohabbat, Subh-e-Azadi, Hum Dekhenge, and Bol Ke Lab Azad Hain Tere. Based on the theories of translation of Walter Benjamin, Roman Jakobson, and Eugene Nida, the analysis shows that English translations can be successful in transferring the political vision and thematic issues of Faiz, but frequently lose the musicality, the metaphorical richness, and the cultural depth of the Urdu originals. The paper will claim that there is neither a direct transference nor total betrayal in translation of the work of Faiz, but a creative re-enactment that opens up new interpretive possibilities and unavoidably alters the affective and aesthetic aspects of the original. This change especially affects the revolutionary voice that determines the poetry of Faiz as the transfer of the tradition of the ghazal in Urdu to the English verse changes the thin line between the lyricism of romanticism and the criticism of politics, which is the distinctive feature of the poetic success of Faiz.
It is argued that AI translation should not be understood solely as a technological tool but also as a transformative force redefining literary production, reception, and cross-cultural communication.
Nyiramukama Diana Kashaka· NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNA...· 0 citations
This paper explores the role of translation in shaping intercultural understanding and the transmission of literary heritage, focusing specifically on the translation of Azerbaijani classical poetry into English. Drawing on key theoretical perspectives in translation studies and historical examples of literary transmission, the study situates Azerbaijani literature within a global context. It traces early encounters with Azerbaijani poets such as Seyyid Imadaddin Nasimi and highlights the contributions of Orientalist scholars in bringing figures like Nizami Ganjavi, Muhammad Fuzuli, and Gazi Burhaneddin to the attention of English-speaking audiences. The paper discusses the challenges posed by the multilingual character of Azerbaijani literary production, especially the use of Arabic and Persian, and debates around the representativeness of translated works. Through a selective analysis of key translations and scholarly efforts, the article underscores the pivotal role of translation in elevating Azerbaijani literary aesthetics and calls for further research to ensure a more comprehensive global appreciation of its cultural and poetic legacy.
The study concludes that, in postcolonial Arabic literary translation, human mediation remains essential for preserving figurative meaning and narrative positioning, while AI tools may serve only as preliminary support rather than as a replacement for human judgment.
Haitham M. K. AlYousef· International Journal of Tra...· 0 citations
This study examined lexical and referential ambiguity in Emily Dickinson’s “Tell all the truth but tell it slant” along with the ways that translators Mohammed Alsharawy, Mahmoud Masoud, and Ahmed Alshalan translated those types of ambiguities from English into Arabic. Using Lucía Molina and Hurtado Albir’s (2002) model, the study compared the three Arabic translations in terms of how they utilized strategies to translate the ambiguous verses. A comparative-descriptive-analytical methodology was applied to accomplish the objective of the study via a two-fold approach: a quantitative analysis of four major lexical and referential ambiguities, and a qualitative stylistic analysis of the entire poem to evaluate the translators’ overall interpretations of Dickinson’s imagery. To examine how often the translators used different strategies to interpret ambiguous words and references in Dickinson’s poem, we constructed a pie chart of their usage. Of the strategies used, explanatory procedures (amplification and compensation) constituted approximately 64%, while literal translation accounted for approximately 36%. Tables comparing the translations demonstrated a combination of methods used by the translators, highlighting the absence of a universal approach to translating ambiguous English words and references into Arabic.
Emtenan Almasoudi, A. Alaboud· English Language and Literat...· 0 citations
Poetry translation, which requires consistency in both artistic and semantic terms, has been one of the most controversial areas of translation studies, creating various obstacles to theoretical and practical discussions. While translation studies in the 1950s and 1960s were more linguistically oriented and focused on the language level, a cultural approach came to the forefront in the 1970s. Lawrence Venuti’s strategies of “domestication” and “foreignization” in translation are notable examples of this approach. Analyzing the translations produced by a Turkish translator (S. Behlül Toygar) and native English-speaking translator (Roger Finch), this study aims to determine which translation technique each translator primarily uses and the extent to which their translational decisions reflect domestication or foreignization tendencies. Moreover, the study comparatively examines how the translators dealt with the lexical, syntactic, semantic, phonological, and graphological elements of the source text. By comparing these linguistic and stylistic categories, the study identifies the parallels and discrepancies between the two translations, assesses how well they capture the aesthetic and semantic elements of the original poem, and highlights the gains, losses, and changes in poetic form and meaning in the translation from Turkish to English. It was concluded that poetry translation often requires a compromise between meaning, form, and culture, rather than achieving complete equivalence, and that Toygar and Finch, instead of copying Beyatlı’s poem “Flight,” recreated it within new linguistic and cultural contexts.
Senem Üstün Kaya· Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergi...· 0 citations
The purpose of the article is to identify the interpretative possibilities of poetic translation based on William Blake’s poem “The Fly” and its Russian versions. The author seeks to reveal how translation decisions - semantic, syntactic, metrical, and punctuational - shape different philosophical attitudes in the text. The novelty of the article lies in approaching translation not through the traditional categories of equivalence and adequacy, but within the framework of the rhizomatic logic of G. Deleuze and F. Guattari, as a process of meaning-making. The author interprets translations not as copies of the original but as independent events that actualize different potentials of the source text. As a result of the analysis, it was possible to identify fourclusters of Russian translations with regard to the philosophical attitude of the final stanza: Stoicism, Romanticism, existentialism of “authentic presence,” and existential skepticism. The study shows that individual translation decisions can radically transform the philosophical perspective of the text. The article concludes that the corpus of Russian translations of “The Fly” represents a network of equal interpretations, each expressing a particular view on life, death, and consciousness, not a hierarchy of “faithful” and “deviating” versions. This approach allows translation to be seen as philosophical and literary creation, rather than as a secondary reproduction of the original text.
A. Pavlenko· Gumanitarnye vedomosti TGPU...· 0 citations