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Literature, geography, translation : studies in world writing /

The present volume connects three academic fields that share central concerns but remain surprisingly isolated from each other: world literature studies, postcolonial studies, and translation studies. It approaches translation not as a vague metaphor but as a distinct and socially embedded practice...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Alvstad, Cecilia, Helgesson, Stefan, Watson, David, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cosmopolitan protocols, multicultural ends? World literature as a programme of study / Paulo Lemos Horta
  • Translating south-south (and other lessons from the future) / Christopher Larkosh
  • What the world leaves behind: ready-made translations and the "closed book" in the postcolonial novel / Chris Holmes
  • From francophonie to "world literature in French": a contextual analysis / Nicolas Di Méo
  • From cultural turn to translational turn: a transnational journey / Susan Bassnett
  • The paraphrase as a colonial scrapbook: eighteenth-century travelogues in Swedish translation: the case of Samuel Ödmann / Raoul Granqvist
  • Literary translation and the "local": developing proactive reciprocal models for cultural exchange / Agnes Whitfield
  • The Swedish periodical Tidskrift för hemmet and the woman question in Sweden in the 1860s / Cecilia Wadsö-Lecaros
  • Ivanhoe and the translation of English children's books into Swedish in the nineteenth century / Björn Sundmark
  • Mapping a reception field and considering its implications: modern Greek literature translated in France (1945-2005) / Thiresia Choremi
  • A modern Egyptian literary classic goes west: translations of Ṭāhā Ḥusayn's novel al-Ayyām and their paratextual features / Gunvor Mejdell
  • Indian Ocean genres / Isabel Hofmeyr
  • Fouiller le paysage: the geo-poetics of Édouard Glissant / Christina Kullberg
  • Language, geography, globalisation: Susana Chavez-Silverman's rejection of translation in killer Crónicas: bilingual memories / Ania Spyra
  • The transnational agenda of Lewis and Pound's avant-garde / Gregory Betts
  • Message in a bottle: the geography of the Cuban revolutionary struggle / Peter Hulme.