This paper addresses the issue of culture specific references in translating a literary work taking as a case study the novel Cette aveuglante absence de lumière written originally in the French language by Taher Benjelloun and translated into the English language under the title The Blinding Absence of Light by Linda Coverdale . The study offers insight into the distribution of these reference...

In Harrouda of Tahar Ben Jelloun, the rewriting oneself in other is intended as a form self-apprehension. By placing himself between two codes, different from each by their respective referents, Jelloun digs distance collective ego and tries to appropriate an equivalent self that not grounded community culture. Aware test otherness accomplished signs referents specific mortgaged language can di...

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