National Cultures and Foreign Narratives in Italy, 1903-1943

ISBN-13: 9783030541521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 274 str.

Francesca Billiani

Recenzje

"National Cultures and Foreign Narratives in Italy, 1903-1943 is an inspiring text that will prove fundamental to any scholar who, for varying motivations, would like to consider the diffusion of foreign literature in Italy in the first half of the century. The author offers a detailed and engaging overview on the circulation of literature and translations in Italy between 1940-43." (Valentina Geri, Annali d'italianistica, Vol. 40, 2022)

O autorze

Francesca Billiani is a Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the co-author with Laura Pennacchietti of Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime (2019) and has published in the fields of Italian intellectual and cultural history, especially concerning translation and the arts.

Blurb

'Francesca Billiani’s National Cultures and Foreign Narratives: Italy 1903-1943 combines a treasure trove of archival material with an innovative interdisciplinary approach to illuminate the relationship between the Italian culture, Italian Fascism and translation. Journeying through literature and publishers, cultural journals and censorship, the volume traces the complex notion of translating practices under a dictatorship and the often contradictory relationship linking the idea of translation, its practices, and the regime.'

- Loredana Polezzi, Stony Brook University, USA

National Cultures and Foreign Narratives charts the pathways through which foreign literature in translation has arrived in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century. To show the contribution translations made to shaping an Italian national culture, it draws on a wealth of archival material made available in English for the first time.