Author(s)

Fan Xiaojuan ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610000, Sichuan, China

Corresponding Author

Fan Xiaojuan

ABSTRACT

Wake Me Up at 9:00 in the Morning is a full-length novel written by Chinese male novelist A Yi in the 1970s, combing dozens of characters in Aiwan, including Ai Hongyang. After the "cultural turn" in translation theory research, feminist translation theory has gradually entered the vision of translation scholars. This paper selects the English translation of Wake Me Up at 9:00 in the Morning by Nicky Harman, a female translator, for comparative textual analysis, and finds that Harman intentionally uses translation strategies involved in feminism to highlight her identity as a female translator. Through the data collected during close reading, Nicky Harman tends to use supplementing and hijacking as the two main translation strategies.

KEYWORDS

Wake Me Up at 9:00 in the Morning; Nicky Harman; Feminist Translation Theory; translation strategy

CITE THIS PAPER

Fan Xiaojuan, A Study on Feminist Translation Strategies—Taking the English Translation of Wake Me Up at 9:00 in the Morning by Nicky Harman as an Example. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2025) Vol. 8: 38-48. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2025.080106.

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