Destruction of Bekisar Merah: Antoine Berman’s Deforming Tendencies in The Red Bekisar

  • Christy Maya Uktolseya Petra Christian University
Keywords: translation, negative analysis, deforming tendencies, culture, Javanese

Abstract

Bekisar Merah, a novel by prominent Indonesian writer Ahmad Tohari, had been translated into its English version The Red Bekisar. Being a literary work thick with Javanese culture with all its depth and uniqueness to the global literary world, the original work is compared to the translated work and furthermore analyzed using Antoine Berman’s ‘negative analysis.’ Berman suggested that in translating a foreign text, foreign elements should be kept and not destroyed by familiarizing them to the receiving culture. Using the ‘deforming tendencies’ in his concept, three foreign deforming tendencies can be found in The Red Bekisar : the destruction of underlying network signification, the destruction of the linguistic patterns, and the destruction of vernacular patterns or their exoticization. Through the samples taken and the analysis, it is found that the three deforming tendencies are making drastic changes and even loss to many elements in the novel, such as their meanings, unity, rhythm, degree, coherence in the line of thoughts, and the richness in the foreign elements.

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Published
2018-01-05
How to Cite
Uktolseya, C. (2018). Destruction of Bekisar Merah: Antoine Berman’s Deforming Tendencies in The Red Bekisar. K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Languange and Literature, 19(2), 41-47. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.9744/kata.19.2.41-47