Title: A Contrastive Study of Narrative Reframing in Builders of a New Life by Sidney Shapiro and Great Changes in a Mountain Village by Derek Bryan

Abstract：The narrative frame theory focusing on the interaction between translation and political conflicts can be applied to evaluate the influence of novel translations reframed by translators on the political and social context. With Mona Baker's narrativity as its theoretical basis, this paper conducts a contrastive text-analysis of Builders of a New Life by Sidney Shapiro and Great Changes in a Mountain Village by Derek Bryan. The result shows that, in applying strategies of label framing, repositioning of participants and selective appropriation of textual materials, Bryan failed to reframe the original narrative with Chinese culture and conflicts in the cooperation movement, while Shapiro succeeded in doing so and even strengthened the socialist features of original narratives, thus making due contributions to the external spread of national narrative and the establishment of a positive national image.

Keywords: narratology, national narrative, outward translation, national translation program

Authors: Dongsheng Ren, Professor, College of Foreign Languages, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong, China; Mengjia Li, College of Foreign Languages, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong, China.