Original Articles

Discovering the African folk-tale in translation

Published in: South African Journal of African Languages
Volume 11 , issue 4 , 1991 , pages: 109–118

DOI: 10.1080/02572117.1991.10586902

Author(s): DeniseA. Godwin Department of Romance Languages, Republic of South Africa

Abstract

The quality and resultant usefulness of folk-tales available in translation are investigated from the point of view of a newcomer to the field, and the problems of translating the folk-tale are explored by attempting to translate into English a folk-tale presented in French.

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