The impacts of Ideological Orientations on the Persian Translations of Virginia Woolf’s Feminist Book-length Essay A Room of One’s Own

Recently the role of ideology and the impact of translator’s point of view on translation have been significantlyconsidered in Translation Studies (TS). In this regard, this study applied Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) foranalyzing Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and its three Persian translations, that were translated after theIslamic Revolution of Iran in 1979. This research adopted Farahzad’s (2011) three-dimensional CDA model oftranslation criticism. According to Farahzad (2011), a comparative translation criticism is carried out at three levels:textual, para-textual, and semiotic levels. The non-fiction feminist novel (book-length essay), A Room of One’s Own along with its three Persian translations (Mehrshadi, 2017; Noor Bakhsh, 2013; & Sajedi, 2005) were criticallyanalyzed at the textual and para-textual levels on the basis of qualitative approach in order to reveal the impacts ofthe Iranian translators’ ideological orientations on the Persian translations of this English feminist book.The results of the study indicated that, although the Iranian translators tried to convey the writer’s western andfeminist ideological orientations embedded within the proto-text, some manipulations and changes were done by them,since political conditions, religious beliefs, and cultural attitudes affected the Persian translations. Generally, themanipulative strategies, which were intentionally or unintentionally used by the three Iranian translators, did notsignificantly affect the ideological loads of the proto-text. This research seems to be good for the students of TS, sinceit can give them fruitful information about the comparative study, critical-thinking, and the practical evaluation oftranslation, as a target-oriented production.

کلیدواژه ها:

A Room of One’s Own ، Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) ، Farahzad’s (2011) CDA Model ، Feminist Discourse ، Manipulation