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Translation and the Global Fifties
When the African American Left Came to Czechoslovakia
Series: - Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, Volume: 73
- Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics Online, Volume: 73
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People, texts, and ideas traveled across the Iron Curtain and back again, even during the 1950s. As radical leftist African Americans struggled with oppression in the US, they found an audience on the other side of the Iron Curtain, in Czechoslovakia. This book uses a transnational lens to uncover these conversations; it explores the role of translation and the cultural transfers and racial imaginaries that both shaped them and were shaped by them. While the early Cold War is the focus of the book, it covers the period between the 1910s and the 1970s and combines close reading with previously unexplored archival materials.
Františka Schormová is a scholar and university lecturer currently based in Prague at the Institute for Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her recent publications include Tractors and Translators: Langston Hughes in Cold War Czechoslovakia, published in PMLA in 2023.
Czech, Central European, Central Eastern European, Slavic Studies; (esp. emerging field of Black Slavic Studies); American Studies, African American Literature; World Literature; Translation Studies; Comparative Literature; Global History; Cold War History.
Graduate seminars: American or Slavic Studies, Comparative Literature Institutions with a global, transnational, or comparative approach
Graduate seminars: American or Slavic Studies, Comparative Literature Institutions with a global, transnational, or comparative approach