Tartan Polonaise: Scottish Crime Fiction in Poland

• Authors: Marta Crickmar
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper examines the position of contemporary Scottish crime fiction in the Polish polysystem. It investigates the definition of tartan noir and the challenges the genre poses in translation.Such concerns seem especially valid in the case of Denise Mina in whose Paddy Meehan series, next to the female protagonist, one of the most important characters is the city of Glasgow with its menacing architecture and the coarse language of its inhabitants. Thus the second part of this paper analyses the Polish translations of Mina’s trilogy in order to show how the dialect and other culture-specific items have been dealt with by two Polish translators.

Keywords

EN

crime fiction; Scottish fiction; tartan noir; Polysystem Theory; dialect in translation; Denise Mina; translation into Polish

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Glottodidactica
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 89-101

Dates

published

2014-01-01

Contributors

author

Marta Crickmar

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/gl.2014.41.1.6