Translation Under Fascism

RUI PINA COELHO is a Researcher at the Centre for Theatre Studies of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and lectures at the Advanced School for Theatre and Cinema (also in Lisbon) FRANK-RUTGER HAUSMANN held a chair in Romance Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany, until his retirement in 2006FRANCESCA NOTTOLA is currently preparing her PhD dissertation in Italian Studies at the University of Manchester in the UK MATTHEW PHILPOTTS is Senior Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Manchester, UKMARIO RUBINO is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Palermo, Italy TERESA SERUYA is Full Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the Arts Faculty of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she teaches Germanic literature and culture, and the History of Translation and Translation TheoryJEROEN VANDAELE is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Oslo, Norway

• Notes on Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION Translation and the History of Fascism; C.Rundle & K.Sturge PART II: OVERVIEW ESSAYS Translation in Fascist Italy: 'The Invasion of Translations'; C.Rundle 'Flight from the Programme of National Socialism'? Translation in Nazi Germany; K.Sturge It was what it wasn't: Translation and Francoism; J.Vandaele Translation in Portugal during the Estado Novo Regime; T.Seruya PART III: CASE STUDIES Literary Exchange between Italy and Germany: German Literature in Italian Translation; M.Rubino The Einaudi Publishing House and Fascist Policy on Translations; F.Nottola French-German and German-French Poetry Anthologies 1943-45; F-R.Hausmann Safe Shakespeare: Performing Shakespeare During the Portuguese Fascist Dictatorship (1926-74); R.P.Coelho PART IV: RESPONSE The Boundaries of Dictatorship; M.Philpotts Bibliography Index

'A most welcome addition to the scholarship on translation and publishing within highly politicixed environments, this collection will undoubtedly become an authoritative sourcebook for those who wish to learn more about the meeting of translation and culture in twentieth-century contexts of European fascisms.' - Target