"Watchmen" Between Languages and Cultures: Translation Analysis of a Uchronic Fictional World Built in the Field of Graphic Narrative
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https://doi.org/10.30827/impossibilia.252023.26927Keywords:
comic book translation, fictional world, graphic novel, translation problem, uchrony, WatchmenAbstract
This paper consists of the translation analysis of a fictional world built within a story pertaining to the field of graphic narratives. Specifically, the transfer between English and Spanish of conceptual, narrative, and linguistic components that enable readers to evoke the uchronic universe presented in Watchmen by Moore, Gibbons and Higgins (published in 1985) will be studied. In this article, theoretical concepts such as “fictional world”, “functionalism”, and “translation problem” will be explored and a practical observation of a selection of translation problems (detected after an integral analysis of this graphic novel) will be carried out to determine the functionality of the proposed options regarding the display of this hypothetical context in the target culture.
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