Denouncing Racial and Gender Stereotypes in Young Adult Literature: Translations into Spanish of on the Come Up (2019) and Concrete Rose (2021) by Angie Thomas
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young adult literature, racism, sexism, translation, Angie ThomasAbstract
This work aims at analysing racial and gender stereotypes in current young adult literature. I will discuss how these topics have been approached in the translations into Spanish of On the Come Up (2019) and Concrete Rose (2021) by American writer Angie Thomas. Critical and descriptive norms by Toury (1995: 56-61) have been followed. Young adult literature and its translation have recently focused on these themes, which have been silenced for a long time. Readers must be conscious of being part of a society which respects gender and race equality and breaks traditional stereotypes. The discussion will determine whether the translators have maintained the writer’s intention, or whether there has been any type of manipulation due to pedagogical or moral criteria (Shavit, 2006).
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