Full Description
Rethinking Cultural Transfer and Transmission. Reflections and New Perspectives formulates new directions within the studies on cultural transfer and transmission, including gender aspects of cultural transfer, the importance of cultural transfer for minority literatures and approaches to writing a cultural transfer and transmission history. The articles collected in this volume demonstrate that the field of cultural transfer and transmission is developing quickly and offers a variety of research possibilities. New aspects are scrutinised and new insights gained from rediscovered material, and although the discussion of the theoretical points of departure and the methods used has only just begun, it is already providing us with interesting results and insights.This book is Volume 4 in the book series Studies on Cultural Transfer& Transmission.
Contents
PrefacePetra Broomans and Sandra van VoorstIntroductionBo G. EkelundThe Citational Universe of Swedish Literary Scholarship: Transmitting and Reproducing an Unequal World in the PeripheryCoppelie CocqSami Storytelling as a Survival StrategyCees KosterTranslation History: Between Micro- and Macro-narrativesLars KlebergTranslations and Translators in Swedish Literary HistoryEls Biesemans and Godelieve LaureysThe Reception of Scandinavian Literature in the Netherlands and Flanders, 1860-1940: Some Preliminary Reflections on the Role of NetworksLiselotte VandenbusschePeripheral Autonomy/Mutual Sympathy? Women Translators in Flanders, 1870-1914Petra Broomans and Marta RonneGendering Cultural Transfer and Transmission HistoryKarina SmitsDie Freundin and Other Relationships: A Proposal for a Comparative Study of the Role of Lesbian Magazines within the Process of Cultural Transfer and TransmissionIngeborg KroonMulticultural Literature: Exotic or Mainstream? A Proposal for a Comparative Study of Swedish Multicultural Literature in Translation
