Depicting mother and child relationship: Love you forever in translation

Children’s literature has often been regarded as an ancillary product of the literary canon and several previous studies (Klingberg, 2008; Shavit, 1986) concerning its translation have focused on the frequent deviations from the Source Text in the form and the content. Pictures, as integral part of the genre, were also subject to changes. Image studies, or imagology, (O’Sullivan, 2011; Lathey, 2016), concerned with intercultural relations in terms of mutual perceptions, images and self-images and their representation in literature, deal on this kind of deviation. Focusing on the translation and the images of Love You Forever (1986), a picture book, by Robert Munsch, published in Italy in 2015, the mother-child relationship represented will be analysed in the cultural representation.