만화 번역전략 및 역사 만화 번역 특수성: ‘위안부’ 만화 "풀" 번역을 중심으로

Abstract

Although an increasing number of comics are translated and published globally, translating comics has not received enough scholarly attention. Strategies of translating comics may vary depending on the sub-genres of comics such as educational comics, commercial comics, editorial comics, webtoons, etc. This paper identifies the various strategies applicable for translating comics and analyzes the translation strategies used in translating 풀, a historical comic book that depicts a life-time experience of a ‘comfort woman.’ It is found out that the translation attempts to strike a balance between the acceptability by the target readership and the adequacy to the original to preserve and deliver historical facts and experience. Besides, as it deals with ‘comfort women’ issues symbolically in pictures, the underlying emotions, controversial points, and atrocities hidden behind the symbolic pictures are sometimes made explicit in text translation.