Hallo everyone and greetings from Poland!
This is about me being in need of a more or less professional translation (is an assignment,I already translated 2 pages,it's just that Im not really able to make s.th useful of these sentences here,although I roughly know their meaning...the text is from a japanese chauvinist talking about women wanting a life as individuals)
そこではＸＸ家の娘としてではなく、自分の名前、
すなわち固有名詞をもった個人として遇されます。
My problem here is:How to translate 固有名詞? It's "peculiar noun" but it sounds strange...
Next and last problem:
けれども、親や家、夫などとのしがちみから解放された自由や自分の考えや力で生きる喜び。。。
what is: とのしがちみから
I tried to break it down but still coudn't find it.....
Thanks in advance for Your kind help! Easychan
I am definitely not a professional translator(This is not a place for that)...but well at least I will try to convey what I make of those sentences.
けれども、((親や家、夫などとの)しがちみから解放された自由)や(自分の考えや力で生きる)喜び。
Yet, I enjoyed living free of the constraints from parents(parents in law?), kinship(house hold chores? family?), and my husband. I found pleasure in thinking myself and supporting myself.
(Well, I used "pleasure" and "enjoyment" as random words which is not quite acceptable for good translation(because it could change meanings))
しがちみ
しがらみ？constraints? But probably for the professional quality translation, you need to know what exactly the constraints are? Does it refer to her responsibilities? Or the socially expected behaviour as a wife? Or just sludge-like-nasty-complexity of human relationship in old big families?
そこではＸＸ家の娘としてではなく、自分の名前、
There I shall be treated not as a doughtier of a ... but as a person,
すなわち固有名詞をもった個人として遇されます。
thus as an individual with my own unique name rather than as a member of a larger whole, a family.
I just cannot really make much sense out of the thing you posted but it seems, the essay or whatever was written in the time when Japan still was a high context society to boots in which people often were not treated as individuals but each as a member of a clan or family.
In other words, what sort of job you can get etc depended on from which family you are from or whether your family is associated with the people of the fields, no job interviews etc available.
In such society, individuality or what a person is capable of is buried and veiled under the roles and such things as "name", "personality", and "will" become an insignificant matter.
So I think the author wanted to say "I am not a woman nor mother but a person with my own bla bla".
It is rather hard and for producing any descent quality translation, you need to know the author's background and probably need to explain it to readers because people today cannot possibly imagine how the lives in the old times had been: People can guess but things were rather different depending on the time and place and also it changed rather rapidly after Japan was forced to abolish isolation policy too.
