Resisting Foreign Penetration: the Anti-translation Campaign in Italy in the Wake of the Ethiopian War

Christopher Rundle; Flavia Brizio-Skov

Resisting Foreign Penetration: the Anti-translation Campaign in Italy in the Wake of the Ethiopian War

Christopher Rundle, Flavia Brizio-Skov (Editor)

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During the 1930s Italy published more translations than any other country in the world. This phenomenon has tended to be seen in terms of the influence on Italian culture of translated American literature, and of its contribution in the construction of a cultural myth of America. It is my belief that this was not the "decennio delle traduzioni" just because of the way in which writers like Pavese and Vittorini used the activity of translation as a means to resist the cultural climate of the time, or because of the popularity of contemporary American fiction; but also for the reason that a taste and a market for popular fiction was catered to using translations and that consequently translations became a cultural and political issue.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Reconstructing Societies in the Aftermath of War: Memory, Identity and Reconciliation
Place of Publication	Boca Raton, FL
Publisher	Bordighera Press
Pages	292-307
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	1-884419-65-8
Publication status	Published - 2004

Keywords

translation and fascism
translation and censorship
translation history
post-war society
Italian Fascism
Fascist Cultural Policy
history of Italian publishing

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Resisting Foreign Penetration: the Anti-translation Campaign in Italy in the Wake of the Ethiopian War

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