Chick Lit in Translation: From Dietland to Sıfır Beden Cehennemi
This study seeks to analyze Sıfır Beden Cehennemi [Size Zero Hell], the Turkish translation of Dietland, a chick lit novel authored by Sarai Walker in 2015, to deconstruct some traditional chick lit discourses and the commodification of the female body. The aim of the study is threefold: (i) to illu...
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| description | This study seeks to analyze Sıfır Beden Cehennemi [Size Zero Hell], the Turkish translation of Dietland, a chick lit novel authored by Sarai Walker in 2015, to deconstruct some traditional chick lit discourses and the commodification of the female body. The aim of the study is threefold: (i) to illustrate how the discourse strategies of otherness that subvert the marginalization of the fat female body are immersed in Dietland, (ii) to examine how these strategies are reflected in the Turkish translation, and (iii) to analyze the examples from the perspective of feminist translation. The study first focuses on the chick lit genre within the context of feminism and sheds light on the genre’s linguistic and textual features. It further carries out a comparative analysis on the source and target texts. Ultimately, the study concludes that the source text’s deconstructive discourse has been recreated in the Turkish translation through discursive othering strategies and paratextual materials, as well as through the feminist translation strategy of supplementing. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-49b70ec37c074a2b9969b17bb9a3a5af2025-08-20T01:51:15ZdeuIstanbul University Pressİstanbul Üniversitesi Çeviribilim Dergisi2717-69592022-12-0117395910.26650/iujts.2022.1168385123456Chick Lit in Translation: From Dietland to Sıfır Beden CehennemiHilal Erkazancı Durmuş0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2790-0415Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara, TurkiyeThis study seeks to analyze Sıfır Beden Cehennemi [Size Zero Hell], the Turkish translation of Dietland, a chick lit novel authored by Sarai Walker in 2015, to deconstruct some traditional chick lit discourses and the commodification of the female body. The aim of the study is threefold: (i) to illustrate how the discourse strategies of otherness that subvert the marginalization of the fat female body are immersed in Dietland, (ii) to examine how these strategies are reflected in the Turkish translation, and (iii) to analyze the examples from the perspective of feminist translation. The study first focuses on the chick lit genre within the context of feminism and sheds light on the genre’s linguistic and textual features. It further carries out a comparative analysis on the source and target texts. Ultimately, the study concludes that the source text’s deconstructive discourse has been recreated in the Turkish translation through discursive othering strategies and paratextual materials, as well as through the feminist translation strategy of supplementing.https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/090C76BF2A6149F3AB9B767B28A00EA6chick litfeminismdiscursive strategies of otheringfeminist translation strategiesdietland |
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| title | Chick Lit in Translation: From Dietland to Sıfır Beden Cehennemi |
| title_full | Chick Lit in Translation: From Dietland to Sıfır Beden Cehennemi |
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| title_short | Chick Lit in Translation: From Dietland to Sıfır Beden Cehennemi |
| title_sort | chick lit in translation from dietland to sifir beden cehennemi |
| topic | chick lit feminism discursive strategies of othering feminist translation strategies dietland |
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