Abstract
Abstract
This article reports on a study of literary translators’ self-imaging strategies and their attitudes towards
technology in the context of the increasing technologisation of the profession. Literary translators’ self-image emerges as the
sum of personal as well as professional characteristics, which is in contrast with the way they believe outsiders perceive them.
Participants’ narratives highlight the feeling of being misunderstood by those outside the profession, and inhabiting an
in-between space, having to reconcile both contradictions inherent to literary translation and those engendered by differing views
of the profession and the role technology plays in it. Results open up a new path for the study of literary translators’
self-imaging strategies by centring their voices as a means to better understand if and how technology can (1) empower translators
of creative texts and (2) reduce the gap between their view of the profession and other stakeholders.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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