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When we read books, watch films and listen to stories, we enter other situations, other times, other places and meet other characters and their other worlds. In this interaction, we also learn something new or maybe something only forgotten about ourselves. Moreover, the world today is full of verbal, visual and audiovisual tellings and retellings, which change our worlds every time we meet the otherness. The otherness changes us and we change the otherness. As the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin would say, we are in a constant dialogic interaction with us, with you, with them, with the whole universe of literature and human understanding.
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Dybiec-Gajer, J., Oittinen, R. (2020). Introduction: Travelling Beyond Translation—Transcreating for Young Audiences. In: Dybiec-Gajer, J., Oittinen, R., Kodura, M. (eds) Negotiating Translation and Transcreation of Children's Literature. New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2433-2_1
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