Rethinking Cultural Transfer and Transmission

Rethinking Cultural Transfer and Transmission. Reflections and New Perspectives formulates new directions within the studies on cultural transfer and transmission, including gender aspects of cultural transfer, the importance of cultural transfer for minority literatures and approaches to writing a cultural transfer and transmission history. The articles collected in this volume demonstrate that the field of cultural transfer and transmission is developing quickly and offers a variety of research possibilities. New aspects are scrutinised and new insights gained from rediscovered material, and although the discussion of the theoretical points of departure and the methods used has only just begun, it is already providing us with interesting results and insights.

Petra Broomans and Sandra van Voorst
Introduction 9

Bo G. Ekelund
The Citational Universe of Swedish Literary Scholarship: Transmitting and Reproducing an Unequal World in the Periphery 15

Coppélie Cocq
Sámi Storytelling as a Survival Strategy 33

Cees Koster
Translation History: Between Micro- and Macro-narratives 49

Lars Kleberg
Translations and Translators in Swedish Literary History 61

Els Biesemans and Godelieve Laureys
The Reception of Scandinavian Literature in the Netherlands and Flanders, 1860-1940: Some Preliminary Reflections on the Role of Networks 75

Liselotte Vandenbussche
Peripheral Autonomy/Mutual Sympathy? Women Translators in Flanders, 1870-1914 93

Petra Broomans and Marta Ronne
Gendering Cultural Transfer and Transmission History 117

Karina Smits
Die Freundin and Other Relationships: A Proposal for a Comparative Study of the Role of Lesbian Magazines within the Process of Cultural Transfer and Transmission 131

Ingeborg Kroon
Multicultural Literature: Exotic or Mainstream? A Proposal for a Comparative Study of Swedish Multicultural Literature in Translation 137

About the Authors 145

Bibliography 149

Index 165