Aristotelian Manipulation

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All these differences may change the main ideas of the source text because Badran gives herself the rights of the author which could produce a new work that may not be the author’s intended message. If the translator has the right to add or delete, the translated text may be different from the original because any text reflects the ideology and thought of its own author which is considered a manipulation. Dukate defines manipulation as:
The translator understanding of a text which eventuates in adaptation of the message in target reader, in terms of cultural, ideological, linguistic and literary mismatches among the cultures is done by human manipulation and this entails some impact of individual factors (2007) But using this strategy, the translated text will be related to the ideology of the translator only, and this is a kind of unfaithfulness because the translator’s role is interpreting what exists not adding his or her points of view. The translation of these memoirs is a manipulation of the source text, which may happen for different purposes and which happened consciously or unconsciously according to the translator’s ideology. Hatim & Mason assert that “the translator’s intervention might be consciously or unconsciously filtered” (1997) Farahzad points out,
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The unconscious manipulation is rather a psychological process and occurs due to the influence of psychological factors. (1999)
This case may happen in translating Huda Sha’rawi’s memoirs because of the feminist ideology of Margot Badran. As Flotow points out, “the feminist translator… has given herself permission to make her work visible.” (Flotow,

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