Çeviri(sel) Dönüş için Bir Araç olarak Yeniden Yazma Üzerine Kavramsal Bir Tartışma

Abstract

This article problematizes the strictly literary use of Andre Lefevere’s conceptualization of rewriting solely in the analysis of translated texts. It aims to discuss how the concept of rewriting can be deployed in the areas of research in social sciences and humanities outside literature and translation studies. To this end, the review first situates the concept of rewriting within the history of translation studies, and especially the emergence of the cultural turn. Subsequently, it delineates the defining aspects of Lefevere’s conceptualization of translation as a form of rewriting. While highlighting his contribution to a renewed understanding of the dynamics involved in the production of translated literature, this overview allows for elucidating the links between the notions of translation and adaptation through the frame of rewriting. In doing so, the article elaborates on the relevance of rewriting to the translation(al) turn by demonstrating its affinity with and divergence from the cultural turn. The Discussion and Conclusion section provides certain specific examples of how patronage can be applied to discuss the restraining or facilitating impact of a given political context on the production of film adaptations. Overall, this review proposes to consider the process of film production as one of rewriting in terms of the possible economic, ideological and status components involved therein. This conceptual discussion thus revisits the potential of rewriting as a methodological tool for a translation(al) turn in social sciences and humanities, which may develop avenues of collaboration between translation studies and other areas of interdisciplinary research.