Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context

<p class=ql-align-justify>Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context examines the translation and reception of Russian literature as a world-wide process. This volume aims to provoke new debate about the continued currency of Russian literature as symbolic capital for international readers in particular for nations seeking to create or consolidate cultural and political leverage in the so-called 'World Republic of Letters'. It also seeks to examine and contrast the mechanisms of the translation and uses of Russian literature across the globe. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>This collection presents academic essays grouped according to geographical location by thirty-seven international scholars. Collectively their expertise encompasses the global reception of Russian literature in Europe the Former Soviet Republics Africa the Americas and Asia. Their scholarship concentrates on two fundamental research areas: firstly constructing a historical survey of the translation publication distribution and reception of Russian literature or of one or more specific Russophone authors in a given nation language or region; and secondly outlining a socio-cultural microhistory of how a specific highly influential local writer genre or literary group within the target culture has translated transmitted or adapted aspects of Russian literature in their own literary production. Each section is prefaced with a short essay by the co-editors surveying the history of the reception of Russian literature in the given region.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Considered as a whole these chapters offer a wholly new overview of the extent and intercultural penetration of Russian and Soviet literary soft power during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This volume will open up Slavonic Translation Studies for the general reader the student of Comparative Literature and the academic scholar alike.</p><p><br></p>