Times of Mobility

Transnational Literature and Gender in Translation
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-963-386-329-9
Verlag: Central European University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 664 g

Reihe: CEU Transnational Perspectives in Gender Studies

In an era of increased mobility and globalisation, a fast growing body of writing originates from authors who live in-between languages and cultures. In response to this challenge, transnational perspective offers a new approach to the growing body of cultural texts with an emphasis on experiences of migration, transculturation, bilingualism and (cultural) translation. The introductory analysis and the fifteen essays in this collection critically interrogate complex relations between transnational and translation studies, bringing to this dialogue a much needed gender perspective. Divided into three parts (From Transnational to Translational; Reading Across Borders and Transnational in Translation), they address a range of issues relevant for this debate, from theoretical problems to practical questions of literary criticism and translation, understood as an act of cultural interpretation. The volume mostly deals with contemporary literary and cultural production, but also with classical texts and modernist literature. Its particular quality is a strong (although not exclusive) focus on Central and East European literatures, and more generally on women writers. Its interdisciplinary, transnational and intercultural perspective makes it relevant across disciplinary boundaries, from literary and translation studies to gender studies, cultural studies and migration studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lukic, Jasmina

Forrester, Sibelan

Faragó, Borbála

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Transnational Literatures and Cultures in/and Translation
Jasmina Lukic, Sibelan Forrester and Borbála Faragó

PART I. From Transnational to Translational
Translational Migrations: Novel Homelands in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
Susan Stanford Friedman
Theorizing Women’s Transnational Literatures: Shaping New Female Identities in Europe through Writing and Translation
Eleonora Federici and Vita Fortunati

Crossing Borders in Perilous Zones: Labors of Transport and Translation in Women Writers of Exile
Azade Seyhan
Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquidity and Transnational Women’s Literature: Nancy Huston as a Case Study
Sonia Fernández Hoyos and Adelina Sánchez Espinosa
Travelling Theory as Theory in Translation: Transnational and Transgenerational Perspectives
Jasmina Lukic

PART II. Reading Across Borders

Translation into Dance: Adaptation and Transnational Hellenism in Balanchine’s Apollo
Grace Ledbetter
Stories from Elsewhere: The City as a Transnational Space in Doris Lessing's Fiction
Ágnes Györke
The Mobile Imagination in European Women’s Writing: Parallels Between Modern and Postmodern Times
Vera Eliasova
Romanian Women’s Migration: Online Versus Offline Stories

Madalina Nicolaescu
From Travelling Memoir to Nomadic Narrative in Kapka Kassabova’s Street without a Name and Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story

Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru
Through the Looking-glass: On Recurring Motifs and Devices in the Prose of Dubravka Ugrešic
Dejan Ilic

PART III. Transnational in Translation

It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing

Michael Kandel
Translating Folktales: From National to Transnational
Sibelan Forrester
Transnational Rivalry and Consecration: Croatian and Serbian Writers in Translation

Ellen Elias-Bursac
China Comes to Warsaw or Warsaw Comes to China: Melech Ravitch’s Travel Poems and Journals

Kathrin Hellerstein

Notes on the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Faragó, Borbála
Borbála Faragó teaches Academic Writing in the Departments of History, Philosophy, Political Science and Environmental Science at CEU. She has lectured on literature and gender in Ireland and in Hungary. She holds a PhD from University College Dublin, and an MA from ELTE, Budapest.

Lukic, Jasmina
Jasmina Lukic is Professor of Gender Studies at the Central European University.

Forrester, Sibelan
Sibelan Forrester is Professor of Modern and Classical Languages and Russian at Swarthmore College.