Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in 'Peripheral' Cultures Customs Officers or Smugglers? /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Roig-Sanz, Diana (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Meylaerts, Reine (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: New Comparisons in World Literature
• Θέματα: Literature .; Literature-Translations.; Comparative literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; European literature.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Translation Studies.; Comparative Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; European Literature.

This book sets the grounds for a new approach exploring cultural mediators as key figures in literary and cultural history. It proposes an innovative conceptual and methodological understanding of the figure of the cultural mediator, defined as a cultural actor active across linguistic, cultural and...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1
• General Introduction: Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators. Toward an Agent and Process-Oriented Approach
• 2. Early Institutionalised Promotion of Translation and the Socio-Biography of Emil Walter, Translator, Press Attaché and Diplomat
• 3. Edoardo Weiss, A Triestine Translating Freud
• 4. Spanish Discovers Yiddish: The Cultural Policies of Salomon Resnick in Argentina in the Interwar Period
• 5. Xiaoshuo yuebao (1921-1931) as a Cultural Mediator of Small Literatures in China
• 6. Mashal Books as Cultural Mediator: Translating East Asian, Middle Eastern, and African Literatures into Urdu in Lahore
• 7. Politics of Translation: How States Shape Cultural Transfers
• 8. From a Slave to a Translator: Conflicts and Mediation in Fatma-Zaïda's Translation of the Quran
• 9. Mediating Flemish Folk Songs Across Cultural Borders During the 19th century: From Patrimonial Monuments to Musical Propaganda
• 10. From Binarity to Complexity: a Latourian Perspective on Cultural Mediators. The Case of Georges Eekhoud's Intra-National Activities
• 11. Moving "Out of the Laager" and "Betraying the Tribe": André Brink as Cultural Mediator
• 12. "Let's Make Peru Peruvian Again:" Cultural Mediators and Indigenous Literature.