Feminist ideology and translated literature, Alexandra-Maria Vrînceanu
Feminist ideology and translated literature, Alexandra-Maria Vrînceanu

Summary/Abstract: Alexandra-Maria Vrînceanu’s Feminist Ideology and Translated Literature, published in 2024, enters the relatively less researched field of gender-oriented translation studies, offering a rigorous overview of feminist translation theory and a substantial corpus of case studies. Combining a historical survey of feminism, an overview of translation studies, and detailed analyses of literary works by Muriel Spark, Erica Jong, Hélène Cixous, Margaret Atwood, and Magda Cârneci, the book focuses on the complex interplay between ideology, gender, the agency of the translator, and reception in the target culture. Vrînceanu’s volume leans neither towards separating literary and cultural theory from translation and traductology, nor towards subsuming one field under the other, but rather brings them into a mutually reinforcing relationship. In this way, it situates translation practice within established international theoretical frameworks, thus bridging a significant scholarly gap and offering a methodological model for future research by scholars, students, and translators alike.

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