Socialist Transnationality in Translation

Wilken Engelbrecht is Professor of Dutch Philology, Chair of Dutch Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia, and Chair of Dutch language at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), Poland.Ton van Kalmthout is a Senior Researcher in Literary History at the NL-Lab of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam and Professor of Dutch Literature at the Leiden University Center for the Arts in Society, Netherlands.Pawel Zajas is Professor of Literary Theory and Dutch Literature at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, and Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

• Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Socialist Transnationality and the Circulation of Dutch-Language Literature Ton van Kalmthout (Leiden University, the Netherlands) and Pawel Zajas (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)2. Poems from Belgium and the Netherlands: Dutch-Language Literature in the GDR Pawel Zajas (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)3. The Bestial Grin of Capitalism: What Soviet People Were Supposed to Learn from Dutch-Language Literature Irina Muchajlova (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)4. From the Country of the Golden Lion: Dutch-Language Literature in Poland Pawel Zajas (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)5. The Mouse Discipline: Olga Krijtová and Júlia Májeková Present Their Views of Dutch and Flemish Literature to Czech and Slovak Readers Benjamin Bossaert (Comenius University, Slovakia) and Wilken Engelbrecht (Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic) 6. The Cogs of Censorship: Cultural Transfer of Dutch-Language Literature in Hungary Gábor Pusztai (University of Debrecen, Hungary)7. A Surprising Diversity: How Aesthetic Principles Ruled in Communist Romania and Dutch-Language Literature Could Thrive Alexa Stoicescu (University of Bucharest, Romania)8. Peering over the Soviet Glasses? Dutch and Flemish Literature in Bulgaria from Multatuli to Panorama Michel De Dobbeleer (Ghent University, Belgium)9. From Yugoslavia with Passion: The Transnational Flow of Dutch and Flemish Literature at the Crossroads between the East and the West Jelica Navakovic-Lopušina (University of Belgrade, Serbia) and Anita Srebnik (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) 10. Between State Control and Literary Interest: Dutch and Flemish Literature in East Central Europe and the Balkans in Socialist Times Wilken Engelbrecht (Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic) ReferenceNotes on ContributorsIndex