Times of Mobility : : Transnational Literature and Gender in Translation / / ed. by Borbála Faragó, Sibelan Forrester, Jasmina Lukic.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Alexandru, Maria,; Bursać, Ellen,; Eliasova, Vera,; Espinosa, Adelina,; Faragó, Borbála,; Federici, Eleonora,; Forrester, Sibelan,; Fortunati, Vita,; Friedman, Susan,; Györke, Ágnes,; Hellerstein, Kathryn,; Hoyos, Sonia,; Ilić, Dejan,; Kandel, Michael,; Ledbetter, Grace,; Lukić, Jasmina,; Nicolaescu, Madalina,; Seyhan, Azade,
• HerausgeberIn: Faragó, Borbála,; Forrester, Sibelan,; Lukic, Jasmina,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2020]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Transnational Perspectives in Gender Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Transnational Literatures and Cultures in/and Translation -- Contributors -- FROM TRANSNATIONAL TO TRANSLATIONAL -- Translational Migrations: Novel Homelands in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane -- Theorizing Women’s Transnational Literatures: Shaping New Female Identities in Europe through Writing and Translation -- Crossing Borders in Perilous Zones: Labors of Transport and Translation in Women Writers of Exile -- Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquidity and Transnational Women’s Literature: Nancy Huston and Assia Djebar as Case Studies -- Traveling Theory as Theory in Translation: Transnational and Transgenerational Perspectives -- READING ACROSS BORDERS -- Translation into Dance: Adaptation and Transnational Hellenism in Balanchine’s Apollo -- Stories from Elsewhere: The City as a Transnational Space in Doris Lessing’s Fiction -- The Mobile Imagination in European Women’s Writing: Parallels Between Modern and Postmodern Times -- Romanian Women’s Migration: Online Versus Offline Stories -- From Traveling Memoir to Nomadic Narrative in Kapka Kassabova’s Street Without a Name and Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story -- Through the Looking-Glass: On Recurring Motifs and Devices in the Prose of Dubravka Ugrešić -- TRANSNATIONAL IN TRANSLATION -- It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing -- Translating Folktales: From National to Transnational -- Transnational Rivalry and Consecration: Croatian and Serbian Writers in Translation -- China Comes to Warsaw or Warsaw Comes to China: Melech Ravitch’s Travel Poems and Journals -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index