Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted Translation and Commentary of a Contemporary Mental Illness Memoir from English into Arabic(Saudi Digital Library, 2023-11-27) Alharbi, Shoruq Lafi; Diouri, MouradThis dissertation is a translation and commentary of Andrea Petersen’s memoir; On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety. This memoir highlights resilience against enormous challenges and powerfully illustrates the author’s path to recovery from anxiety and mental illness. The text is educational and could demystify anxiety disorders and mental illnesses via personal narrative. This dissertation aims to identify theories that will facilitate the translation of this work from English to Arabic. Moreover, preserve the imagery of the author ethically. By considering the most prominent features of contemporary mental illness memoirs – such as figurative language, technical terminologies, and other cultural aspects – the dissertation explores the process of communicating personal illness narratives across cultures to fill the gap of illness narrative in Arabic while preserving the traumatic experience’s related imagery and details. The theoretical framework consists of the interdisciplinary approach of the translator being a ‘secondary witness’ Dean-Cox’s 2013 in translating traumatic memories and emphasizes the translator’s ethical role. Next is a genre analysis of contemporary mental illness memoirs. Finally, as a general translation approach, using the functional theory of skopos. This framework facilitated the following outcomes: First, imagery-enhancing figures of speech are preserved. Second, the functional approach guided the translation of technical and medical terms. Third, the culturally specific items were translated without disrupting the narrative. This project will contribute to mental illness narrative translations. The aforementioned framework refines the translation product, allowing it to motivate further publications and translations in the domain of the contemporary mental illness memoirs genre.58 0