Retranslating, repackaging, and recontextualizing Simone de Beauvoir's Le deuxième sexe in the Turkish context with an invisible feminist translator.
This article analyzes the Turkish retranslation of Beauvoir's Le deuxième sexe, translated by Gülnur Acar Savran and published by Koç University Press in 2019, with a focus on the receiving cultural context. The study aims to problematize the fact that the female translator of this 'feminist retrans...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 33; no. 6; pp. 1210 - 1228 |
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Dec2025
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