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  • Cultural Studies
  • Memory Studies

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  • Transnational memory studies often overlook the role of translation.
  • Transcultural memorial forms shape how collective memories are received and understood.
  • Sofi Oksanen's novel 'Purge' offers a case study for analyzing memory translation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose translation as a novel model for conceptualizing the transnational travel of memories.
  • To analyze the domesticating and foreignising effects of 'born translated' memories.
  • To examine how transcultural memorial forms, such as war rape, facilitate memory translation and reception.

Main Methods:

  • Drawing on theories from translation studies, world literature, and reception studies.
  • Analyzing Sofi Oksanen's novel 'Purge' as a literary example.
  • Investigating the concept of memories being 'born translated'.

Main Results:

  • Translation offers a framework for understanding memory's transnational movement.
  • Memories exhibit both domesticating (assimilating) and foreignising (othering) effects during their transmission.
  • War rape as a memorial form in 'Purge' highlights the foreignising impact of translated Soviet-era trauma.

Conclusions:

  • Conceptualizing memory travel through translation enriches transnational memory studies.
  • The study demonstrates how specific memorial forms can translate and transform traumatic memories.
  • Analyzing literary works provides insights into the complex reception of transculturally transmitted memories.