Translator’s Gender and Culture Ideology: A Case Study of the Translation of Eka Kurniawan’s Cantik Itu Luka Into Beauty is A Wound

There are some Indonesian works of literature, especially novels, have been translated into some languages in the world. One of them is Cantik Itu Luka written by Eka Kurniawan and has been translated into more than 30 languages. This novel has been translated into English by Annie Tucker. Annie Tucker is a translator and writer specializing in Indonesian literature, arts, and culture. She is an American who loves Indonesian culture and art. The story of this novel combines history, satire, tragedy, legend, humor, and romance. This novel narrates about a beautiful Indo prostitute, Dewi Ayu, and her four daughters that are assailed by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, monstrosity, and vengeful undead. Since the writer of this novel is Indonesian male and the translator is American female, this study focused on translators' ideology in translating two significant items carried out in this novel; cultural and gender sides. After analyzing, this study shows that foreignization ideology of the translator is dominant in translating cultural-related terms. The translator keeps maintaining all terms, which really characterize Indonesian, while in gender ideology perspective of the translator shows that translator’s successfulness in understanding the writer’s ideas although some sample data cause distortion because the translator loses some dramatic moments in the story.