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Within the field of Cultural Transfer Studies, traditional terms linked to national systems like “reception” and “influence” have been problematized. An increasing focus on process and metamorphosis has pointed to the necessity of considering culture as relational, and quite recently, the status of the literary work and its textual transfers has become a legitimate part of research in cultural transfer. These elements have mainly been studied through the prism of intertextuality, which can be seen as the logical textual and literary equivalent of cinematographic remakes. Taking into account the parallel development of Cultural Transfer Studies and Cultural Translation Studies, I want to argue that creative appropriation and the idea of textual transfers may open perspectives in relation to processes of cultural transfer on the level of individual works and at various other scales as well as culturally and linguistically determined modes of reading. Through concrete readings of experimental literary works, I want to suggest that we must think in terms of a “poetics of translation” to be analysed at the level of individual literary works. This approach may bring to the fore how neo-avant-garde strategies of the sixties imply translation and rewriting but also how metafictional novels integrate concrete examples of (commented) translations on the levels of works. Through readings of Daniel Spoerri’s Topographie anecdotée du hazard (1962), or rather his and Emmett Williams’ collective English version, An Anecdoted Topography of Chance (1966), and metafictional novels such as Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire (1962) and Aragon’s Blanche ou l’oubli (1967), I want to pinpoint these writers’ awareness of the cultural implications of textual transfers. Thus, translation and rewriting imply strong indications of the reader’s position as a potential rewriter and literature as a necessary existential remedy for a sense of loss and exile.
Transnational Perspectives, Translation Processes, Scandinavian and Postcolonial Challenges
Examining the cultural dynamics of translation and transfer, Cultural Transfer Reconsideredproposes new insights into both epistemological and analytical questions raised in the research area of cultural transfer. Seeking to emphasize the creative processes of transfer, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink have invited specialized researchers to determine the role of structures and agents in the dynamics of cultural encounters. With its particular focus on the North, as opposed to the South, the volume problematizes national paradigms. Presenting various aspects of tri- and multilateral transfers involving Scandinavian countries, Cultural Transfer Reconsidered opens perspectives regarding the ways in which textual, intertextual and artistic practices, in particular, pave the way for postcolonial interrelatedness.
Contributors: Miriam Lay Brander, Petra Broomans, Michel Espagne, Karin Hoff, Steen Bille Jørgensen, Anne-Estelle Leguy, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Walter Moser, Magnus Qvistgaard, Anna Sandberg, Udo Schöning, Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier
Contributors: Miriam Lay Brander, Petra Broomans, Michel Espagne, Karin Hoff, Steen Bille Jørgensen, Anne-Estelle Leguy, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Walter Moser, Magnus Qvistgaard, Anna Sandberg, Udo Schöning, Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier
Transnational Perspectives, Translation Processes, Scandinavian and Postcolonial Challenges
Examining the cultural dynamics of translation and transfer, Cultural Transfer Reconsideredproposes new insights into both epistemological and analytical questions raised in the research area of cultural transfer. Seeking to emphasize the creative processes of transfer, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink have invited specialized researchers to determine the role of structures and agents in the dynamics of cultural encounters. With its particular focus on the North, as opposed to the South, the volume problematizes national paradigms. Presenting various aspects of tri- and multilateral transfers involving Scandinavian countries, Cultural Transfer Reconsidered opens perspectives regarding the ways in which textual, intertextual and artistic practices, in particular, pave the way for postcolonial interrelatedness.
Contributors: Miriam Lay Brander, Petra Broomans, Michel Espagne, Karin Hoff, Steen Bille Jørgensen, Anne-Estelle Leguy, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Walter Moser, Magnus Qvistgaard, Anna Sandberg, Udo Schöning, Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier
Contributors: Miriam Lay Brander, Petra Broomans, Michel Espagne, Karin Hoff, Steen Bille Jørgensen, Anne-Estelle Leguy, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Walter Moser, Magnus Qvistgaard, Anna Sandberg, Udo Schöning, Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier