Censorship and Ideology

Julia Lin Thompson is a translator and an independent scholar, who earned her PhD in August 2021 from the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. During her doctoral studies, Julia was a recipient of Australian Postgraduate Awards. Her PhD thesis, titled “Ideology and the Translation of Children’s Literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Franco’s Spain”, examines the intersection of ideology and the translation of children’s books in Francoist Spain. Her research interests cover the fields of literary translation, comparative literature, children’s literature, and book history. Her research focuses on the translation of books for children, book censorship in twentieth-century Spain, and book censorship in post-1949 China.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Ideology, Censorship, and Translation.- Chapter 2: Book Censorship in Post Civil-War Spain.- Chapter 3: Pet Bug, Hogs, and Hell.- Chapter 4: “No Mo’ Kings!”.- Chapter 5: Feud and Love.- Chapter 6: The Disobedient Child.- Chapter 7: The Limitations of the Patronage Power.- Chapter 8: The Dynamics of the Poetics of Children’s Literature Translation.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.