Transfer Thinking in Translation Studies : Playing With the Black Box of Cultural Transfer. Este artículo no está disponible.Transfer Thinking in Translation Studies : Playing With the Black Box of Cultural Transfer

The concept of transfer covers the most diverse phenomena of circulation, transformation and reinterpretation of cultural goods across space and time, and are among the driving forces in opening up the field of translation studies. Transfer processes cross linguistic and cultural boundaries and cannot be reduced to simple movements from a source to a target (culture or text). In a time of paradigm shifts, this book aims to explore the potential and interdisciplinary power of transfer as a concept and an analytical tool to account for complex cultural dynamics.

The contributions in this book adopt various research angles (literary studies, imagology, translation studies, translator studies, periodical studies, postcolonialism) to study an array of entangled transfer processes that apply to different objects and aspects, ranging from literary texts, legal texts, news, images and identities to ideologies, power asymmetries, titles and heterolingualisms. By embracing a process-oriented way of thinking, all these contributions aim to open the ‘black box’ of transfer in the widest sense.

Maud Gonne is FNRS postdoctoral fellow in translation studies at University of Namur and UCLouvain. Klaartje Merrigan holds a PhD in translation studies from KU Leuven. Reine Meylaerts is full professor of comparative literature and translation studies at KU Leuven. Heleen van Gerwen holds a master's degree in Western literature and a PhD in translation studies from KU Leuven.