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This chapter provides a general introduction to the main themes covered in this work. Firstly, it deals with some of the most influential definitions, features and functions of children’s literature in order to better determine and define the field of research. Secondly, this chapter provides a brief historical account of the development of children’s literature aimed at establishing the role played by this field in the past and present times. This role will be then further analysed in relation to the field of Translation Studies (TS) in order to explore the ways in which intralingual and interlingual translations, through rewriting and adaptation, have produced ideologically loaded texts in different languages and/or in different times. Two sections are devoted to the role played by translators as well as editors, publishers and third parties as the final translated product is a negotiation involving several different agents in the process. This chapter also includes a section dealing with the issues of taboo, censorship and manipulation, which can be detected in the translated works of children’s literature as a result of ideological and cultural considerations. Children’s texts, indeed, may play different roles and function differently from one culture to another for different reasons.
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Leonardi, V. (2020). Children’s Literature and Translation. In: Ideological Manipulation of Children’s Literature Through Translation and Rewriting. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47749-3_2
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