Bel Paese or Spaghetti noir?: The image of Italy in contemporary Italian fiction translated into Danish

Hanne Jansen

Bel Paese or Spaghetti noir? The image of Italy in contemporary Italian fiction translated into Danish

Bidragets oversatte titel: Bel Paese eller Spaghetti noir?: Italiensbilledet i moderne italiensk fiktionslitteratur oversat til dansk

Hanne Jansen

Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk

Abstract

Translations participate in the construction of the images of foreign cultures, and texts that reinforce the national stereotypes are often those selected for translation. Are there recurrent features in Italian literary texts translated into Danish that reveal what is perceived as 'typically' Italian in the eyes of Danes? This chapter will examine translations of contemporary Italian narrative, relying primarily on the website of the Danish public libraries, bibliotek.dk, that contains keyword categorizations and evaluations produced by the librarians in order to “mediate” between the foreign texts and the Danish readership. The chapter will draw on the notions of image construction and national stereotypes (cf. Beller & Leerssen 2007) and of the metynomic nature of translation (cf. Tymoczko 1999).

Bidragets oversatte titel	Bel Paese eller Spaghetti noir?: Italiensbilledet i moderne italiensk fiktionslitteratur oversat til dansk
Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology
Redaktører	Luc van Doorslaer, Peter Flynn, Joep Leerssen
Antal sider	17
Vol/bind	Translation Liberya 119
Forlag	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publikationsdato	feb. 2016
Sider	163-179
ISBN (Trykt)	9789027258601
ISBN (Elektronisk)	9789027267719
Status	Udgivet - feb. 2016

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Det Humanistiske Fakultet

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Bel Paese or Spaghetti noir? The image of Italy in contemporary Italian fiction translated into Danish . / Jansen, Hanne.
Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology. red. / Luc van Doorslaer; Peter Flynn; Joep Leerssen. Bind Translation Liberya 119 John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. s. 163-179.

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