Reframing Western Comics in Translation : Intermediality, Multimodality and Censorship (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies)

Martinez, Nicolas

Routledge（2025/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 160 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032125831
• DDC分類 741.531

Full Description

This book adopts an intermedial, translational, and transnational approach to the study of the Western genre in European Francophone comics and their English and Spanish translations, offering an innovative form of analysis with potential applications in future research on the translation of comics.

Martinez takes the application of Bourdieu's work on the sociology of culture to translation studies to explore the role of diverse social agents in shaping the products, processes, and reception of translations of Western comics. The book focuses on Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean Giraud's iconic Blueberry Western comic book series as a lens through which to examine agency and sociocultural norms that influence translations and the degrees to which cartoonists, editors, translators, and censors frame the genre on a global scale. The volume both extends the borders of translation studies research beyond interlingual translation and showcases the study of comics and graphic narratives as an area of inquiry in its own right within the field.

This book will be of interest to scholars in translation studies, comics studies, visual culture, and cultural studies.

Contents

Introduction: Comics in translation

Part I Western comics as translation

1 The field of Franco-Belgian Western comics after the Second World War

2 Intermediality as translation and the Western canon

Part II Reframing comics—Case study: The Blueberry Western series

3 The Blueberry series in French

4 Blueberry in the Anglosphere: Translation, agency, and the "moving line"

5 Blueberry in Spain: Francoism and multimodal censorship

Conclusion: The international circulation of comics as cultural goods