关键词: 宋碧云; 《啼笑皆非》; 译者主体性; 雌雄同体

Abstract: From the perspective of translator’s subjectivity, this paper, by taking Song Biyun’s Chinese translation of Between Tears and Laughter as an example, attempts to analyze the impact of the androgynous translator’s subjectivity and historical background of her time on the target text reconstruction from such five aspects as choice of source text, manipulation of target language, motivation of translation activity, cognition of the translator and fusion of horizons. It holds that the translator is the very translation subject acting independently from the source text as well as its writer in the translation process, and that the translator’s subjectivity, in fact, results from the joint action made of his/her political stand, cultural background, value priorities as well as the specific social and historical environment where he/she lives, so that it is inevitable for the translator to manipulate and modify somewhat the source text regarding its textual meaning, textual structure and even its political orientation. Therefore, the translator’s subjectivity is likely to be clearly described in terms of his/her intentional manipulation of the text and his/her thinking path. In this sense, the translator’s manipulative modifications of this kind would impose a significant impact on the target text and pump a new life into the source text originally created in a given era.

Keywords: Song Biyun; Between Tears and Laughter; translator’s subjectivity; androgyny