本文嘗試透過班雅明的「翻譯者」理論來詮釋奇努．阿契比《分崩離析》與達西．馬克尼克《來自敵方天空的風》中文化翻譯的議題。文本中兩位主角對於自我成長的經歷、外來文化的反抗與成為文化翻譯者的發展均為本文的焦點。以下章節分別論述兩位主角各自在《分崩離析》與《來自敵方天空的風》詮釋理想翻譯中的匱乏與矛盾。第一章藉由艾德華．薩依德的理論分析翻譯定義與翻譯者的角色定位。再者，透過論述形成的觀點，藉由傅柯的「權力與知識」理論探討論述的問題與權力機制之間的關係。透過權力機制的呈現，分析民族誌學發展中權力與語言的關係及探討文化翻譯的可能性。第二章討論《分崩離析》的主角Okonkwo對文化翻譯的抗拒。身為一名文化翻譯者，Okonkwo藉由自己的觀點翻譯自己身處的文化與外來文化。隨著文本的發展，整體而言，他的錯誤翻譯不只表現在外來文化的解讀並呈現在自己身處的文化詮釋。最後，由於錯誤翻譯的表現，導致主角成為悲劇英雄。第三章透過達西．馬克尼克《來自敵方天空的風》的描述、分析，討論美國當地原住民的思想與文化，包括對於外來文化的抗拒。《分崩離析》的Okonkwo與《來自敵方天空的風》的Bull皆詮釋身處在主要文化對外來文化翻譯的可能性。在翻譯的過程中，錯誤的翻譯使Okonkwo與Bull成為文化翻譯裁決者的狀態，這種狀態導致於殖民者與被殖民者之間的隔閡持續存在。

This thesis attempts to explore issues of cultural translation in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and D’Arcy McNickle’s Wind from an Enemy Sky in light of Benjamin’s notion of the translator. The two protagonists’ experiencing the self-evaluation, rejecting the foreign culture, and developing a tendency for being a cultural translator are my main focuses. The following chapters with the sequence of Things Fall Apart and Wind from an Enemy Sky will respectively elaborate the two protagonists’ lack or ambivalence when they find their ideal translation.  In the first chapter, I will dwell on the definition of translation, exploring the role of translator in terms of Edward Said’s theory. Furthermore, drawing from the formation of discourse, I look at the problem of discourse and analyze the relation between discourse and power institutions. Here, I supplement Michel Foucault with the notion of power and knowledge. By virtue of power institution, I will emphasis power and language in terms of the development of ethnography and explore the possibility of cultural translation. Chapter Two discusses how Okonkwo resists cultural translation. As a cultural translator, he translates his culture and foreign culture through his perspective. As a whole, his mistranslating not only reveals something of the foreign culture but presents his own translation in his culture. In this regard, this mistranslating translation makes Okonkwo a tragic hero in the end of novel. In Chapter Three, I will explore aspect of Native American thinking and culture, including its resistance of foreign translation, as it is described, analyzed and expressed by the American novelist D’Arcy McNickle. Both Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart and Bull in Wind from an Enemy Sky stage the (im)possibility of translation in the host culture. In the process of their mistranslating have emerged, which puts both of Okonkwo and Bull in an award position so that the gap between the colonizer and the colonized cannot be overcome.

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter One
Of Authority and Power in the Translator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Chapter Two 
The Pitfall of Colonialism in Things Fall Apart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Chapter Three
The (Im)possibility of Cultural Translation in Wind from an Enemy Sky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Works Cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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