Retranslation and Socio-Cultural Changes

Alessandro Amenta is Associate Professor of Polish Language and Translation at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His research interests include translation and retranslation studies, literary onomastics, Polish speculative fiction, interwar and post-1989 literature, gender and queer studies in Central and Eastern Europe.Natascia Barrale is Associate Professor of German Literature at the University of Palermo. Her main research interests are twentieth-century German literature and translation studies, with particular reference to the Italian reception of German literature, the censorship of translation and the relationship between translation and ideology.Chiara Sinatra is Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Translation at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Her main research interests concern critical discourse analysis, the pragmatic implications of translation and retranslation, self-translation and the relationship between translation and identity.

• Contents: Alessandro Amenta, Natascia Barrale and Chiara Sinatra: Introduction – Özlem Berk Albachten – In Pursuit of Fragments of «The Woman’s Soul»: (Re)Translations of Gina Lombroso’s L’anima della donna in Turkish (1936–1980) – Dario Prola: An Overview of the Italian Translations of Pan Tadeusz – Giulia Baselica: Vasilij Grossman’s Žizn’ i sud’ba and Its Two Italian Translations – Letizia Carbutto: Structural Censorship and Retranslation: Gustave Flaubert’s Voyage en Orient and Its Italian Translations – Gisela Marcelo Wirnitzer: Tracking the Magic of the Many Wizards of Oz: Chronicles and Spells in Its Spanish Retranslations – Eleonora Fois: Retranslating Tolkien’s World: A Study of Context and Onomastic Significance in the Italian Retranslation of The Lord of the Rings – Mary Wardle: Writing, Rewriting, Translating, Retranslating: The Evolution of Primo Levi’s Se questo è un uomo – Natascia Barrale: Misleading Paratexts and Falsely Complete Translations: Retranslating Vicki Baum’s Bestsellers in Italy – Alessandro Amenta: Retranslation or Self-Revision? On the Italian Translations of Olga Tokarczuk’s Prawiek i inne czasy – Simona Munari: Retranslating a «New» Original: Raymond Radiguet’s Le Bal du comte d’Orgel in Italy.