Children’s Literature in Translation

Groundbreaking study connecting textual and contextual approaches

For many of us, our earliest and most meaningful experiences with literature occur through the medium of a translated children’s book. This volume focuses on the complex interplay that happens between text and context when works of children’s literature are translated. What contexts of production and reception account for how translated children’s books come to be made and read as they are? How are translated children’s books adapted to suit the context of a new culture? Spanning the disciplines of Children’s Literature Studies and Translation Studies, this book brings together established and emerging voices to provide an overview of the analytical, empirical and geographic richness of current research in this field and to identify and reflect on common insights, analytical perspectives and trajectories for future interdisciplinary research.

This volume will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students in Translation Studies and Children’s Literature Studies and related disciplines. It has a broad geographic and cultural scope, with contributions dealing with translated children’s literature in the United Kingdom, the United States, Israel, Ireland, Spain, France, Brazil, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, China, the former Yugoslavia, Sweden, Germany, and Belgium.

Contributors: Valérie Alfvén (Stockholm University), Delia Guijarro Arribas (EHESS), Michał Borodo (Kazimierz Wielki University), Anna Kérchy (University of Szeged), Gillian Lathey (University of Roehampton), Charlotte Lindgren (Dalarna University), Jack McMartin (KU Leuven), Lia A. Miranda de Lima (University of Brasília), Marija Zlatnar Moe (University of Ljubljana), Emer O’Sullivan (Leuphana University Lüneburg), Germana H. Pereira (University of Brasília), Anna Olga Prudente De Oliveira (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), Annalisa Sezzi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Zohar Shavit (Tel Aviv University), Marija Todorova (Hong Kong Polythechnic University), Jan Van Coillie (KU Leuven), Sara Van Meerbergen (University of Stockholm), Li Xueyi (independent scholar), Tanja Žigon (University of Ljubljana)

Winner IRSCL Edited Book Award 2021

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

"Children’s Literature in Translation" was edited by Jan Van Coillie and Jack McMartin.

Jan Van Coillie is emeritus professor at the Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven where he taught Applied Linguistics, Children’s Literature and Children’s Literature and Translation.

Jack McMartin is assistant professor of Translation Studies and English at KU Leuven.

Yes, "Children’s Literature in Translation" is part of the "Translation, Interpreting and Mediation" series.

Translation, Interpreting and Mediation

Mission statement

Championing a broad and transversal approach to the study of translational phenomena, Translation, Interpreting and Mediation (TIME)  is a book series for monographs and edited volumes that explore translation as a pervasive social practice connecting spaces and collectivities through complex forms of resemiotization and mediation. The series transcends traditional notions of translation as the decoding and recoding of semantic invariants and embraces an expansive understanding of translational agency. It aims to provide a venue for theoretical and methodological innovations at the disciplinary frontiers where translation is pervasive and essential but seldom fully understood or acknowledged. The series welcomes different perspectives on translation, interpreting and mediation, interfacing with a variety of areas of study, including sociology, literature, linguistics, cognition, politics, law, history, communication, multimodality, ecology, technology, cultural production and digital humanities (among others). The series draws inspiration from the collective expertise of CETRA (Centre for Translation Studies), its institutional home at KU Leuven.

All volumes in the series are double peer reviewed.

For questions, please contact the series editors.

Series editors

Jack McMartin (KU Leuven)
Sara Ramos Pinto (University of Leeds)

Editorial board

Núria Codina Solà (KU Leuven)
Lieven D’hulst (KU Leuven)
Peter J. Freeth (London Metropolitan University)
Deborah Giustini (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
Gabriel González Núñez (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
Bei Hu (National University of Singapore)
Akiko Sakamoto (Kansai University)

Advisory board

Brian Baer (Kent State University)
Pieter Boulogne (KU Leuven)
Lynne Bowker (University of Laval)
Elke Brems (KU Leuven)
Leo Tak-hung Chan (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
Antoon Cox (KU Leuven)
Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin)
Dilek Dizdar (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Yves Gambier (University of Turku)
Maud Gonne (University of Liège)
Arnt Lykke Jakobsen (Copenhagen Business School)
Haidee Kotze (Utrecht University)
Kaisa Koskinen (Tampere University)
Kobus Marais (University of the Free State)
Reine Meylaerts (KU Leuven)
Joss Moorkens (Dublin City University)
Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University)
Franz Pöchhacker (University of Vienna)
Hanna Risku (University of Vienna)
Diana Roig Sanz (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Heidi Salaets (KU Leuven)
Christina Schäffner (Aston University)
Luc van Doorslaer (University of Tartu / KU Leuven)

Yes, "Children’s Literature in Translation" is published Open Access. It is available under a BY-NC-ND license.

Publication of "Children’s Literature in Translation" was funded by KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access
CERES Centre for Reception Studies (KU Leuven)
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Contributors
Introduction: Studying texts and contexts in translated children’s literature Jan Van Coillie & Jack McMartin
Part 1 Context » Text
“Only English books”: The mediation of translated children’s literature in a resistant economy Gillian Lathey
Two languages, two children’s literatures: Translation in Ireland today Emer O’Sullivan
Cultural translation and the recruitment of translated texts to induce social change: The case of the Haskalah Zohar Shavit
Associative practices and translations in children’s book publishing: Co-editions in France and Spain Delia Guijarro Arribas
Translation and the formation of a Brazilian children’s literature Lia A. Miranda de Lima & Germana H. Pereira
Said, spoke, spluttered, spouted: The role of text editors in stylistic shifts in translated children’s literature Marija Zlatnar Moe & Tanja Žigon
Diversity can change the world: Children’s literature, translation and images of childhood Jan Van Coillie
Part 2 Text » Context
The creative reinventions of nonsense and domesticating the implied child reader in Hungarian translations of Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandAnna Kérchy
“Better watch it, mate” and “Listen ’ere, lads”: The cultural specificity of the English translation of Janusz Korczak’s classic Król Maciuś Pierwszy Michał Borodo
Brazilian rewritings of Perrault’s short stories: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century versus twenty-first-century retellings and consequences for the moral message Anna Olga Prudente de Oliveira
Translating crossover picture books: The Italian translations of Bear Hunt by Anthony Browne Annalisa Sezzi
Pettson and Findus go glocal: Recontextualization of images and multimodal analysis of simultaneous action in Dutch and French translations Sara Van Meerbergen & Charlotte Lindgren
Translating violence in children’s picture books: A view from the former Yugoslavia Marija Todorova
Defying norms through unprovoked violence: The translation and reception of two Swedish young adult novels in France Valérie Alfvén

Index

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for "Children’s Literature in Translation" is 10.11116/9789461663207.