Journals -- Literature in Translation
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World Literature Today World Literature Today is the University of Oklahoma's award-winning literary quarterly magazine of international literature and culture.
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Words without BordersFounded in 2003, Words Without Borders promotes cultural understanding through the translation, publication, and promotion of the finest contemporary international literature.
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Asymptote Journal "Winner of the 2015 London Book Fair's International Literary Translation Initiative Award, Asymptote is the premier site for world literature in translation. We take our name from the dotted line on a graph that a mathematical function may tend toward, but never reach. Similarly, a translated text may never fully replicate the effect of the original; it is its own creative act."
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Center for the Art of Translation -- Two Lines Press The Center for the Art of Translation is dedicated to finding "new, overlooked, and underrepresented voices, brought into English by the best translators, and to celebrating the art of translation."
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Writing the Yugoslav Wars: Literature, Postmodernism, and the Ethics of Representation
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In Writing the Yugoslav Wars, Dragana Obradović analyses how the Yugoslav wars of secession helped shape the region’s literary culture. Obradović argues that the crisis of the country’s disintegration posed an ethical challenge to self-identified postmodernists. This book takes a transnational approach to literatures of the former Yugoslavia that have been, since the 1990s, studied separately, in line with geopolitical divisions. This post-socialist conflict was one of the moments that reshaped postmodernism for both local and international thinkers, much in the same way modernism was shaped by World War I and the advent of mechanized warfare.
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In the Wake of the Balkan Myth: Questions of Identity and Modernity
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The West has constructed the Balkans as a primitive space and simplified its historical and geographical realities, including journalists' accounts of recent wars in Bosnia. Based largely on translated works, this book tells how writers from former Yugoslavia have confronted this negative narrative in their novels and film. Their fictional worlds reveal an underlying fear of a return to a wild, pre-modern state. Recent crises in the region have generated apocalyptic visions of Balkan primitivism and made a myth into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Media Discourse and the Yugoslav Conflicts: Representations of Self and Other
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In spite of the growing literature on discourse analysis, the relationship of discourse to violent/non-violent outcomes of conflict is an under-researched area. This book combines theories on ethnic conflict, identity construction and discourse analysis with a comprehensive and inclusive survey of the countries of the former Yugoslavia. It presents an understanding of the interrelationship between 'words' and 'deeds' grounded through an extensively close analysis of film, television and newspapers samples taken from the period. This combination of ground-breaking applications of theory with detailed empirical case studies will make Media Discourse and the Yugoslav Conflicts of key interest to scholars across a range of social sciences including sociology, discourse analysis, media, conflict and peace studies as well as those concerned with ethnopolitical conflict.
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Why Bosnia? Writings on the Balkan War
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A collection of essays and poetry reflect the feelings of those effected by t conflict in Bosnia, the impact of the U.S. presidential election, and the failed Vance-Owen compromise.
Location: Mugar Stacks DR1313.3 .W49 1993Publication Date: 1993
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American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies This link opens in a new window Covers North American scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. Contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books and book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications.
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