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Aiming at both identifying the representation of femininity as a social construct and analysing the way in which it can be translated into film adaptations of novels, this work focuses on the interpretations of a famous and, at the same time, problematic literary work, namely the 1994 film Little Women (dir. Gillian Armstrong), reworking the classic nineteenth-century American best-seller "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. In particular, drawing on the critical apparatus of feminism(s), the paper lays emphasis on the way in which the metafictional texture of the novel captures instances of reality into fiction, glimpses of autobiography and, of course, femininity at the level of the filmic text. Such aspects are then considered from the perspective of adaptation and translation theories: contrasting the literary translation with the audio-visual one, the undertaking means to highlight the losses in the latter mode of expression and the extent to which the defining elements aforementioned are preserved in the Romanian language.

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Oana-Celia Gheorghiu is a literary translator who has translated and published works of Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Maude Parkinson, John Wray, Michael Morpurgo or Tom Rob Smith into Romanian. She is currently completing her PhD studies in English and American Literature with a thesis on political and media discourse in Anglo-American post-9/11 fiction. She has also published many scientific articles and a book on film adaptation, "William Shakespeare´s ´Macbeth´ on Film: From Interpretation to Revision (2015).

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