Trans(portable)

English in the world

Editors

Julie Deconinck | Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Eva Ulrike Pirker | Vrije Universiteit Brussel

[English Text Construction, 18:2] Expected October 2026. ca. 150 pp.

Publishing status: In production

Table of Contents

This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes.

English moves: Hegemony, hybridity, and the (trans)portability of English in literature, translation, and beyond the page Eva Ulrike Pirker and Julie Deconinck	111–135
An ‘English home’: Constructions of familiarity and instability in Lucy Atkinson’s Recollections of Tartar steppes and their inhabitants (1863) Maxime Honinx and Marjolein Goethals	136–165
Transportable but untranslatable? A style-sensitive approach to the Russian translation of Virginia Woolf’s essay On Being Ill Dina Batii	166–190
Black experience, bajan, and musico-literary intermediality in Austin Clarke’s They Never Told Me: And other stories Yanrong Wang and Janine Hauthal	191–212
Transparent foreignization: Leila Aboulela’s literary practice in The Translator Chiara Arcadio	213–234
“I [...] wore my English like a mask” English as an ambivalent world of possibilities in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Ceydanur Temurok	235–255
Transportable audio descriptions of diversity? Queen Charlotte and the limits of Netflix’s inclusion strategy Alexandra Sanchez	256–281

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