ABSTRACT

This paper expands on a previous study with a view to providing an extensive overview of trends concerning the gender of authors and translators of works translated into Galician, spanning almost 30 years, broadening the scope to include ethnicity and source languages. Galician was chosen owing to the central role played by translation in minority languages and the fact that its thriving yet relatedly limited sector facilitates a complete overview over an extended period. As a sociological phenomenon, translation is taken as a means of gauging androcentrism in the literary publishing sector as a reflection of male-dominated gender bias in society. Based on the findings which clearly indicate an on-going androcentric bias with an unjustified underrepresentation of works by women authors, the paper posits the existence of a ‘double filter’ for women authors, i.e. in the publishing and the translation phases. The underrepresentation of women also manifests itself through the disproportionally low number of women translators employed in this high prestige sector. The paper concludes that this situation is ostensibly attributable to a lack of planning in the sector designed to offset implicit gender bias and calls for a concerted effort to redress this lack of balance.

摘要

本文扩展了之前的一项研究，旨在广泛概述翻译成加利西亚语的作品的作者和翻译者的性别趋势，跨越近 30 年，将范围扩大到包括种族和源语言。选择加利西亚语是因为在少数民族语言的翻译中发挥了核心作用，而且其蓬勃发展但相关的有限部门有助于在很长一段时间内进行完整的概述。作为一种社会学现象，翻译被视为文学出版部门衡量男性中心主义的一种手段，反映了社会中男性主导的性别偏见。基于这些调查结果清楚地表明持续存在的男性中心主义偏见以及对女性作者作品的不合理的低估，该论文假定女性作者存在“双重过滤器”，即在出版和翻译阶段。女性代表人数不足也表现在这一高声望部门雇用的女性翻译人数过少。该文件的结论是，这种情况表面上是由于该部门缺乏旨在抵消隐性性别偏见的规划，并呼吁共同努力纠正这种缺乏平衡的问题。