Translation of children’s and young adult literature and perpetuation of femininity and masculinity models ; Traducción de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil y perpetuación de modelos de feminidad y masculinidad ; Tradução de literatura infanto-juvenil e perpetuação dos modelos de masculinidade e feminilidade

Stereotypes have always strongly conditioned our way of perceiving and understanding the world around us. The reading of children’s and young adult literature plays a key role in the socialization process by means of which children learn to behave the way society expects them to according to their genderIf we take into account the fact that in Spain the percentage of translations in relation with total publications of children’s and young adult literature, has been around 40% in the last years, we must agree that translation of this kind of literature contributes to a great extent to shaping the masculinity and femininity models children are exposed to. This is an empirical-descriptive, comparative analysis of the translations into Spanish and Valencian of one volume of two series of children’s books originally written in German: Der Kleine Vampir by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg and Hexe Lilli by Ludger Jochmann (Knister). The main conclusion is that even in these works, in which female characters embody new prototypes, either due to factors that are overlooked in the original and passed on in the translation, or to manipulations motivated by the reception pole of the translation, some of the stereotypes meant to be eradicated are perpetuated. ; Siempre han existido estereotipos que condicionan la manera en que los individuos ven y entienden la realidad. Estas construcciones imaginarias resultan fundamentales en el proceso de socialización y se adquieren en gran parte a través de lecturas de la infancia. El porcentaje de traducciones en relación con las publicaciones totales de TRALIJ en España se ha venido situando en torno al 40 % en los últimos años, lo que pone de manifiesto el peso de la traducción de este tipo de literatura a la hora de perpetuar o rechazar los modelos de masculinidad y feminidad a los que exponemos a los más pequeños. Este es un análisis empírico-descriptivo de las traducciones al castellano y valenciano de un número de dos sagas de LIJ originales en alemán: Der Kleine Vampir de Angela ...