What is it about?
Taking a look at the Argentine comic strip Mafalda, created by Quino, and the Portuguese-language Brazilian comic A Turma da Mônica by Maurício de Sousa, this study explores the cultural and linguistic significance of satire in translation along with its associated challenges.
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Character naming and effective translation of these comic strips requires an expanded view of satire as a principally literary genre by examining its linguistic and cultural purposes.
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This page is a summary of: Translating satire inMafaldaandA Turma da Mônica, Translation and Interpreting Studies, July 2022, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/tis.00054.pot.
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