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Title:Absence of local flavour: presentation of Igbo proverbs in English and French
Authors:Samuel, Awa
Chimmuanya, Ngele
Year:2014
Periodical:Okike: an African Journal of New Writing (ISSN 0331-0566)
Issue:52
Pages:333-347
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:proverbs
Igbo
translation
Abstract:This study critically examines the English and French translations of ten Igbo proverbs selected from Achebe's novel 'Arrow of God' and compares them with the Igbo originals. The authors show that these proverbs loose some of their meaning when re-expressed in English or French, because the imageries used represent different cultural realities. In translation the proverbs become dissociated from Igbo cosmology and cannot recreate the local flavour they have in Igbo. Bibliogr., sum [ASC Leiden abstract]
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