Translation Under Fascism

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Translation and the History of Fascism

      • Christopher Rundle, Kate Sturge

      Pages 3-12

3. Overview Essays

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Translation in Fascist Italy: ‘The Invasion of Translations’

      • Christopher Rundle

      Pages 15-50

   3. ‘Flight from the Programme of National Socialism’? Translation in Nazi Germany

      • Kate Sturge

      Pages 51-83

   4. It Was What It Wasn’t: Translation and Francoism

      • Jeroen Vandaele

      Pages 84-116

   5. Translation in Portugal during the Estado Novo Regime

      • Teresa Seruya

      Pages 117-144

4. Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Literary Exchange between Italy and Germany: German Literature in Italian Translation

      • Mario Rubino

      Pages 147-177

   3. The Einaudi Publishing House and Fascist Policy on Translations

      • Francesca Nottola

      Pages 178-200

   4. French—German and German—French Poetry Anthologies 1943–45

      • Frank-Rutger Hausmann

      Pages 201-214

   5. Safe Shakespeare: Performing Shakespeare during the Portuguese Fascist Dictatorship (1926–74)

      • Rui Pina Coelho

      Pages 215-231

5. Response

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   2. The Boundaries of Dictatorship

      • Matthew Philpotts

      Pages 235-251

6. Back Matter

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The history of translation has focused on literary work but this book demonstrates the way in which political control can influence and be influenced by translation choices. New research and specially commissioned essays give access to existing research projects which at present are either scattered or unavailable in English.

• dictatorship
• English
• fascism
• German
• history
• translation
• translation studies

'A most welcome addition to the scholarship on translation and publishing within highly politicixed environments, this collection will undoubtedly become an authoritative sourcebook for those who wish to learn more about the meeting of translation and culture in twentieth-century contexts of European fascisms.' - Target

• University of Bologna, Italy

  Christopher Rundle

• Aston University, UK

  Kate Sturge

RUI PINA COELHO is a Researcher at the Centre for Theatre Studies of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and lectures at the Advanced School for Theatre and Cinema (also in Lisbon) FRANK-RUTGER HAUSMANN held a chair in Romance Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany, until his retirement in 2006 FRANCESCA NOTTOLA is currently preparing her PhD dissertation in Italian Studies at the University of Manchester in the UK MATTHEW PHILPOTTS is Senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Manchester, UK MARIO RUBINO is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Palermo, Italy TERESA SERUYA is Full Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the Arts Faculty of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she teaches Germanic literature and culture, and the History of Translation and Translation Theory JEROEN VANDAELE is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Oslo, Norway