Tractors and Translators: Langston Hughes in Cold War Czechoslovakia
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18440%2F23%3A50020687" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18440/23:50020687 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/pmla/article/abs/tractors-and-translators-langston-hughes-in-cold-war-czechoslovakia/59386647F73300FDE62AD93D9F1B7BCB" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/pmla/article/abs/tractors-and-translators-langston-hughes-in-cold-war-czechoslovakia/59386647F73300FDE62AD93D9F1B7BCB</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/S0030812923000445" target="_blank" >10.1632/S0030812923000445</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Tractors and Translators: Langston Hughes in Cold War Czechoslovakia
Original language description
The poet Langston Hughes was central to mid-century transnational exchanges and Cold War translation. This essay examines the poet's centrality through a new lens, presenting a case study on Czech translations of Hughes's poetry between 1950 and 1963 that draws on archival materials, especially the correspondence between Hughes and one of his Czech translators, Jiří Valja; paratexts; and analysis of translations. The essay shows how Hughes's poetry was translated into Czech against the backdrop of Cold War publishing politics and aesthetic norms, how the translations of Hughes's work operated in these contexts, and how Cold War translation emerged as a specific site of inquiry with its own challenges, contacts, and practices.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
PMLA
ISSN
0030-8129
e-ISSN
1938-1530
Volume of the periodical
138
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
519-533
UT code for WoS article
001110883900007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85171736140