]nvestigating Edward Browne's Postcolonial Discourse and its Representation in Persian Translation of "A Year amongst the Persians"

مطالعات زبان و ترجمه

Article 3, Volume 48, Issue 1, April 2015, Pages 53-74   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/lts.v48i1.33733

Authors

Zohreh Taebi; Fatemeh Heidari^*

Department of English, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

The present paper is to find traces of postcolonial discourse and its main characteristic, namely legitimization of the Western culture and its values. Seeking this aim, and considering the ideas of celebrated postcolonial scholars like Saeed, and Fanon, the researchers studied the full text of Edward Browne's diary "A year amongst the Persian" written in 1888, in qajar era. The text was studied to get an impression on the way Iranian culture was represented. There were about more than 40 cultural cases in which a sort of Self/ Other representation was obvious. They were all introduced in the methodology section with a message under each case that uncovers the hidden ideological attitudes toward our culture. Moreover, these cases were juxtaposed with their Persian translation (by Zabiholah Mansoori) to see how these partial cases were translated into Persian. We got the point that he mostly used "addition" and "deletion" technique to foil the postcolonial attitudes of the author.

Keywords

Postcolonial; Edward Browne; Self; Other; Iranian Culture; Postcolonial Discourse

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