NATIONAL AND CULTURAL FEATURES IN UZBEK TRANSLATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS

This article studies how Uzbek literary tradition appears in Uzbek translations of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. It compares three translators: Yusuf Shomansur, whose book came out in 1978 and was made from Russian; Jamol Kamol, who translated from English; and Xurshid Davron. The analysis uses the ideas of domestication and foreignization and polysystem theory, and it reads twenty sonnets in four areas: images of nature, names for the beloved and for love, word choice linked to Eastern poetry, and verse form. The main images of the original stay in place, for example summer in Sonnet 18 and the rose in Sonnet 54. Cultural change shows mostly in small additions, such as duldul, mulla, chopon and mohitob, and in the words used for the beloved. In form, 204 of the 210 lines counted in fifteen sonnets have exactly eleven syllables, and the rhyme plan of the original is kept. The results can help translation studies, comparative literature and the teaching of literary translation.