Crossing Lines, Crossing Borders: The Translator’s Role in Subverting Power Structures in Naghmeh Samini’s The Child

Ava Alavi; Rachael Powles

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Vol. 49 No. 1 (2024): Special Issue Staging Strategies: Trends in Canadian Drama and Performing Arts

Crossing Lines, Crossing Borders: The Translator’s Role in Subverting Power Structures in Naghmeh Samini’s The Child

Ava Alavi^▸^▾
Rachael Powles^▸^▾

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Submitted: June 24, 2025
Published: 2025-06-24

References

Hermans, Theo. “The Translator’s Voice in the Translated Narrative.” Metatranslation: Essays on Translation and Translation Studies. Routledge, 2023.
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. Interpreter Handbook. Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, 11 July 2024, www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/interpreters/Pages/Interpret.aspx#Toc342656893.
Johnston, David. “Metaphor and Metonymy: The Translator-Practitioner’s Visibility.” Staging and Performing Translation: Text and Theatre Practice, edited by Roger Baines et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 11-30.
Pavis, Patrice. “Toward Specifying Theatrical Translation.” Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture, by Patrice Pavis, translated by Loren Kruger, Routledge, 1992, pp. 137-60.
Samini, Naghmeh. The Child. Translated by Ava Alavi and Rachael Powles. Unpublished, 2024.
Tan, Zaixi. “The Fuzzy Interface between Censorship and Self-Censorship in Translation.” Translation and Interpreting Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 2019, pp. 39-60.
Venuti, Lawrence. The Translator’s Invisibility: A History of Translation. Translation Classics ed., Routledge, 2018.
Versényi, Adam. “The Dissemination of Theatrical Translation.” The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, edited by Magda Romanska, Routledge, 2015, pp. 288-93.

How to Cite

Alavi, A., & Powles, R. (2025). Crossing Lines, Crossing Borders: The Translator’s Role in Subverting Power Structures in Naghmeh Samini’s The Child. Studies in Canadian Literature, 49(1). Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/34896

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[1] Hermans, Theo. “The Translator’s Voice in the Translated Narrative.” Metatranslation: Essays on Translation and Translation Studies. Routledge, 2023.

[2] Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. Interpreter Handbook. Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, 11 July 2024, www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/interpreters/Pages/Interpret.aspx#Toc342656893.

[3] Johnston, David. “Metaphor and Metonymy: The Translator-Practitioner’s Visibility.” Staging and Performing Translation: Text and Theatre Practice, edited by Roger Baines et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 11-30.

[4] Pavis, Patrice. “Toward Specifying Theatrical Translation.” Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture, by Patrice Pavis, translated by Loren Kruger, Routledge, 1992, pp. 137-60.

[5] Samini, Naghmeh. The Child. Translated by Ava Alavi and Rachael Powles. Unpublished, 2024.

[6] Tan, Zaixi. “The Fuzzy Interface between Censorship and Self-Censorship in Translation.” Translation and Interpreting Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 2019, pp. 39-60.

[7] Venuti, Lawrence. The Translator’s Invisibility: A History of Translation. Translation Classics ed., Routledge, 2018.

[8] Versényi, Adam. “The Dissemination of Theatrical Translation.” The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, edited by Magda Romanska, Routledge, 2015, pp. 288-93.