Ideological Intervention of (In)Visible Translator: A Close Reading of the English Translation of Faiz’s Poem

Abstract

This paper relies on Venuti’s concept of invisibility and domestication of translation to substantiate the idea that even an invisible translator is ideologically present. This presence owes a great deal to the translator's attitude towards culture of source and target languages, and this makes both foreignization and domestication susceptible to meaning loss. By comparing the translation of Faiz’s poem by Rahim and Kumar, the article looks at the differences between two selected translated works to maintain a stance that both visible and invisible translators are ideologically present. The political tone of the poem Bol (speak) is a suitable one to study this change in ideological perspectives in two selected translations, as even a slight change in linguistic items is liable to bring visible ideological shifts.