文学翻译与文化变形

文本植根于社会历史语境，是社会历史文化的一面镜子，而翻译则是文化身份的再现，受制于源语、译语两种文化之间的权力关系。东西方经济、文化发展不平衡影响了文学翻译的文化再现。在西方的叙事话语里，东方被塑造成了一个相对西方而存在的神秘落后、可供驯服的异国他乡。受这一虚构神话的影响，文学翻译中往往展现出一幅歪曲变形的东方形象，这体现了西方强势文化对东方弱势文化的歧视与压制。

Literary Translation and Cultural Deformation

A literary text is rooted in a certain social and historic context; it is also a minor of that context. As a form of literary text, Translation is the representation of cultural identity, which is manipulated by power relationship between the source and the target cultures. The unbalanced,economic and cultural developwent between the Drient and the Occident In Western grand narratives, in contrast to the powerful and rational Occident, the Orient is depicted as a mystic, backward and tamed world. Influenced by such long - established ideology, the image of the Oriental world is often twisted or belittled in literary translation, which reflects the dominance of the strong Occidental culture over the weak Oriental culture.