Traducción comentada de la obra My Mad Fat Diary

Gilabert Giménez, Nerea

Traducción comentada de la obra My Mad Fat Diary

License

Citation

Gilabert Giménez, N. Traducción comentada de la obra My Mad Fat Diary. 2019. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/42967

This citation was generated automatically.

Abstract

Taking into consideration the last data released by the Spanish government regarding the popularity of young adult literature in the country it can be said that there is a lack of books dealing with mental health issues compared to the amount of young people affected by mental and eating disorders in Spain. This paper presents the translation of some of the entries from the autobiographical novel My Mad Fat Diary, by Rae Earl, a book that deals with some taboos and delicate issues such as bullying, mental and eating disorders, and low self-esteem issues from a casual and juvenile perspective. All of this without missing the typical young people’s concerns about love, friendship and sexual life. This paper introduces the book and its author inside the frame of the young adult literature and the autobiographical genre in order to be able to carry an analysis and an assessment of the decisions taken during the translation of the text. It also takes into consideration the cultural references of the space-time context in which the events unfold. The main aims are to introduce the work of the British author Rae Earl into the Spanish literary scene and to help fill the void of YA literature that deals with these issues.