EAN: 9783319781136

LITERARY TRANSLATION AND CULTURAL MEDIATORS IN ...

This book sets the grounds for a new approach exploring cultural mediators as key figures in
literary and cultural history. It proposes an innovative conceptual and methodological
understanding of the figure of the cultural mediator  defined as a cultural actor active across
linguistic  cultural and geographical borders  occupying strategic positions within large
networks and being the carrier of cultural transfer. Many studies on translation and cultural
mediation privileged the major metropolis of Paris  London  and New York as centres of cultural
production and translation. However  other cities and megacities that are not global centres of
culture also feature vibrant translation scenes. This book abandons the focus on 'innovative'
centres and 'imitative' peripheries and follows processes of cultural exchange as they develop.
Thus  it analyses the role of cultural mediators as customs officers or smugglers (or both in
different proportions) in so-called 'peripheral' cultures and offers insights into an
under-analysed body of actors and institutions promoting intercultural transfer in often
multilingual and less studied venues such as Trieste  Tel Aviv  Buenos Aires  Lima  Lahore  or
Cape Town.

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