Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in ‚Peripheral‘ Cultures

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Customs Officers or Smugglers?, New Comparisons in World Literature

ISBN: 3319781138
ISBN 13: 9783319781136
Herausgeber: Diana Roig-Sanz/Reine Meylaerts
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xvii, 373 S., 4 s/w Illustr., 373 p. 4 illus.
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.08.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

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 geographical borders, occupying strategic positions within large networks and being the carrier of cultural transfer. Many studies on translation and cultural mediation privileged the major metropolis of Paris, London, and New York as centres of cultural production and translation. However, other cities and megacities that are not global centres of culture also feature vibrant translation scenes. This book abandons the focus on ‚innovative‘ centres and ‚imitative‘ peripheries and follows processes of cultural exchange as they develop. Thus, it analyses the role of cultural mediators as customs officers or smugglers (or both in different proportions) in so-called ‚peripheral‘ cultures and offers insights into an under-analysed body of actors and institutions promoting intercultural transfer in often multilingual and less studied venues such as Trieste, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, Lima, Lahore, or Cape Town.

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Autorenporträt

Diana Roig Sanz is a Ramón y Cajal senior research fellow at the Open University of Catalonia, Spain, and a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute, at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research interests include cultural history and sociology of translation and digital humanities and big data approaches applied to the study of translation and cultural history. Reine Meylaerts is Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium, where she teaches European Literature, Comparative Literature and Translation and Plurilingualism in Literature. Her current research interests concern translation policy, intercultural mediation and transfer in multilingual cultures, past and present.

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