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Translating Asymmetry – Rewriting Power
Edited by Ovidi Carbonell i Cortés and Esther Monzó-Nebot
[Benjamins Translation Library 157] 2021
► pp. 291–311

Chapter 13
Against the asymmetry of the post-Francoist canon

Feminist publishers and translations in Barcelona

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The emergence of women’s social and cultural movements in Spain after the death of Francisco Franco led to the appearance of remarkable feminist publication series and publishing houses in a search for foreign ideological mothers. In Barcelona, three such feminist projects were founded in 1977: Colección Feminismo (1977–1979), of Ediciones de Feminismo, La Educación Sentimental (1977–1984), of Anagrama, and the hybrid and multipurpose cultural and political café-bar LaSal, the embryo of LaSal, Edicions de les Dones (1978–1990), the first feminist press in Spain. In this chapter three feminist imprints of the Transition period will be presented. All of them fought to combat the chronic lack of ideological mothers that the Francoist regime had imposed. Aimed at restoring the historical memory of women and creating an identity debate, the importation of foreign feminist literature was crucial for the social transformations of the time. Translation became one of the elements of social change, a political act in trying to achieve canonical equality.
Keywords: history of translation, history of women, history of feminist publishing, feminist historiography of translation, feminism and translation, feminist publishing houses
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: Interrelating three subaltern histories: The history of women, the history of translation, and the history of feminist publishing
  • 2.Feminist publishing platforms of the second wave
  • 3.Notes on feminisms, Francoism, and post-Francoism
  • 4.The first feminist publishing projects in post-Francoist Barcelona
    • 4.1Colección Feminismo (1977–1979)
    • 4.2La Educación Sentimental (1977–1984)
  • 5.LaSal, Edicions de les Dones (1978–1990), the first feminist publishing house in Spain
    • 5.1Six series
    • 5.2A last transnational legacy: The IV International Feminist Book Fair (1990)
  • 6.Conclusions: Combating “the great defeat”
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 16 August 2021
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