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Todorova, Marija. 2021. The Translation of Violence in Children’s Literature: images from the Western Balkans (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies). London: Routledge. 192 pp.
Publication type
Monograph
Publication language
English
Target language
Main ISBN
9780367249960
Edition number
1
Edition info
ISBN (hardback): 9780367249960 ISBN (e-book): 9780429285394

Abstract

Considering children’s literature as a powerful repository for creating and proliferating cultural and national identities, this monograph studies children’s literature in translation from the Western Balkans. Todorova looks at a broad range of children’s literature, from fiction to creative non-fiction and picture books, across five different countries in the Western Balkans, with each chapter including detailed textual and visual analysis through the predominant lens of violence. These chapters raise questions around who initiates and effectuates the selection of children’s literature from the Western Balkans for translation into English, and interrogate the role of different stakeholders, such as translators, publishers and cultural institutions in the representation and construction of these countries in translated children’s literature, both in text and visually.
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