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Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context
- Muireann Maguire(editor)
- Cathy McAteer(editor)
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| Title | Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context |
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| Contributor | Muireann Maguire(editor) |
| Cathy McAteer(editor) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0340 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0340 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Muireann Maguire; Cathy McAteer. Copyright of individual chapters are maintained by the chapter author(s). |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Publication place | Cambridge, UK |
| Published on | 2024-04-03 |
| ISBN | 978-1-80064-983-5 (Paperback) |
| 978-1-80064-984-2 (Hardback) | |
| 978-1-80064-985-9 (PDF) | |
| 978-1-80064-989-7 (HTML) | |
| 978-1-80064-986-6 (EPUB) | |
| Short abstract | Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context examines the translation and reception of Russian literature as a world-wide process. This volume aims to provoke new debate about the continued currency of Russian literature as symbolic capital for international readers, in particular for nations seeking to create or consolidate cultural and political leverage in the so-called ‘World Republic of Letters’. It also seeks to examine and contrast the mechanisms of the translation and uses of Russian literature across the globe. |
| Long abstract | Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context examines the translation and reception of Russian literature as a world-wide process. This volume aims to provoke new debate about the continued currency of Russian literature as symbolic capital for international readers, in particular for nations seeking to create or consolidate cultural and political leverage in the so-called ‘World Republic of Letters’. It also seeks to examine and contrast the mechanisms of the translation and uses of Russian literature across the globe. This collection presents academic essays, grouped according to geographical location, by thirty-seven international scholars. Collectively, their expertise encompasses the global reception of Russian literature in Europe, the Former Soviet Republics, Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Their scholarship concentrates on two fundamental research areas: firstly, constructing a historical survey of the translation, publication, distribution and reception of Russian literature, or of one or more specific Russophone authors, in a given nation, language, or region; and secondly, outlining a socio-cultural microhistory of how a specific, highly influential local writer, genre, or literary group within the target culture has translated, transmitted, or adapted aspects of Russian literature in their own literary production. Each section is prefaced with a short essay by the co-editors, surveying the history of the reception of Russian literature in the given region. Considered as a whole, these chapters offer a wholly new overview of the extent and intercultural penetration of Russian and Soviet literary soft power during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This volume will open up Slavonic Translation Studies for the general reader, the student of Comparative Literature, and the academic scholar alike. |
| Print length | 726 pages (xii+714) |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Dimensions | 156 x 51 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 2.01" x 9.21" (Paperback) |
| 156 x 54 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 2.13" x 9.21" (Hardback) | |
| Weight | 1005g | 35.45oz (Paperback) |
| 1198g | 42.26oz (Hardback) | |
| Media | 11 illustrations |
| 2 tables | |
| OCLC Number | 1428595620 |
| LCCN | 2023446241 |
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Contents
Introduction: "The Greatest Gift"?
(pp. 1–14)- Muireann Maguire
- Cathy McAteer
Russian Literature in Europe: An Overview
(pp. 17–24)- Muireann Maguire
More Than a Century of Dostoevsky in Catalan
(pp. 25–44)- Miquel Cabal Guarro
- Anne Lange
- Aile Möldre
- Tomi Huttunen
- Marja Jänis
- Pekka Pesonen
- Elizabeth F. Geballe
- Elizaveta Sokolova
Two Translation Periods in Dostoevsky’s Canon Formation in Greece (1886-1900 and 1926-54)
(pp. 109–130)- Christina Karakepeli
- Niovi Zampouka
- Zsuzsa Hetényi
Alastar Sergedhebhít Púiscín, the Séacspír of Russia: On the Irish-Language Translations of Pushkin
(pp. 171–180)- Mark Ó Fionnáin
Mariia Olsuf’eva: The Italian Voice of Soviet Dissent or, the Translator as a Transnational Socio-Cultural Actor
(pp. 181–202)- Ilaria Sicari
Russian Literature in Italy: The Twentieth Century
(pp. 203–218)- Claudia Scandura
- Susan Reynolds
- Octavian Gabor
- James Rann
Countess Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921): The Single-handed Popularizer of Russian Literature in Spain
(pp. 281–294)- Margaret Tejerizo
- Lada Kolomiyets
- Oleksandr Kalnychenko
Russian Literature in Africa: An Overview
(pp. 323–328)- Cathy McAteer
- Mukile Kasongo
- Georgia Nasseh
Maksim Gorky and Arabic Literature: From The Thousand and One Nights to Contemporary Classics
(pp. 349–366)- Sarali Gintsburg
- Nikolay Steblin-Kamensky
Russian Literature in Asia: An Overview
(pp. 387–392)- Cathy McAteer
- Yu Hang
- Ranjana Saxena
The Translation of Russian Literature into Hindi
(pp. 425–428)- Guzel’ Strelkova
The Visibility of the Translator: A Case of the Telugu Section in Progress Publishers and Raduga
(pp. 429–436)- Anna Ponomareva
- Ayesha Suhail
- Venkatesh Kumar
- Hiroko Cockerill
- Sabina Amanbayeva
Cultural Dialogue between Russia and Mongolia: Gombosuren Tserenpil and the Poetics of Translating Dostoevsky’s Novel
(pp. 485–498)- Zaya Vandan
- Muireann Maguire
Traces of the Influence of Russian Literary Translations on Turkish Literature of the 1900s
(pp. 499–508)- Hülya Arslan
Pushkin’s Journey Through Turkish Translations
(pp. 509–524)- Sabri Gürses
From Russian to Uzbek (1928-53): Unequal Cultural Transfers and Institutional Supervision under Stalinist Rule
(pp. 525–554)- Benjamin Quénu
- Trang Nguyen
Translating Russian Literature in Brazil: Politics, Emigration, University and Journalism (1930-74)
(pp. 573–592)- Bruno Baretto Gomide
- Anastasia Belousova
- Santiago E. Méndez
- Damaris Puñales–Alpízar
- Rodrigo García Bonillas
- Catherine O’Neil
- Muireann Maguire
Contributors
Muireann Maguire
(editor)Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at University of Exeter
Muireann Maguire is Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter. Her research interests include nineteenth-century Russian literature, the translation and reception of Russian literature in Western Europe, and the representation of maternal subjectivity in fiction. Besides a newly minted passion for collecting vintage paperbacks, she is starting a new project about William Golding’s reception of Tolstoy. She is currently completing a monograph about the history of literary translation from Russian in the US, provisionally titled The Spectre of Nicholas Wreden: Translating Russian Literature in Twentieth-Century America, 1886-1986 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024).
Cathy McAteer
(editor)Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University of Exeter
Cathy McAteer is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter for the ERC-funded project The Dark Side of Translation: 20th and 21st Century Translation from Russian as a Political Phenomenon in the UK, Ireland and the USA (RusTrans). Her main research interests are in the field of classic Russian and Soviet literature in English translation, specifically Penguin's Russian Classics. Her first monograph, Translating Great Russian Literature: The Penguin Russian Classics (BASEES Routledge series, 2021), is available in Gold Open Access. She is currently finalising her second monograph, Cold War Women: Female Translators and Cultural Mediators of Russian and Soviet Literature in the Twentieth Century (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024).
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