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TRANSLATING AMERICA KARTONIERT (TB)

This volume attempts to critically re-think the ways in which facts and myths  histories and
fictions that shape current and past understandings of (the US of) America have been perceived
assimilated  transformed and  in sum  translated in the arena of global culture  especially in
Europe. The essays presented analyze notions of America and Americanness  and their
interpretation  transformation and appropriation through linguistic translation  adaptation 
domestication and re-imagination  at all levels of the cultural semiosphere. Essays focus on
trans-Atlantic and trans-American migration and displacement of political ideas  economic
models  and cultural discourses. How has translation served as a way of rewriting certain
crucial stories  tropes  or images across different cultural media or genres? What are the
challenges of translating gender identity and ethnic and cultural connections? How have
political ideas and cultural practices been negotiated across the Atlantic over the centuries?
This volume develops from some of the papers presented at the Twentieth International
Conference of the Italian Association for North-American Studies (AISNA) held at the University
of Torino in September 2009.

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