CTIS Research Seminars: "Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry: Transnational Exchange in 1950s-1960s Italy" (Dr Mila Milani)
| Dates: | 24 October 2024 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:30 |
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| What is it: | Talk |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Dr Mila Milani |
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The years following the Second World War saw an exponential increase in the translation of contemporary foreign poetry in Italy. The practice was at its most acute in the 1950s and 1960s, when publishing houses across the board almost doubled the number of foreign poetry titles in their catalogues. This remarkable phenomenon, however, has received scant critical attention, which has been limited to an aesthetic perspective. Drawing on untapped archival materials, this talk investigates from an interdisciplinary perspective the processes and products of poetry translation, and how they impacted on publishing, cultural, literary, and political dynamics in Italy. It explores the internal reconfiguration of Italian culture, and how Italian intellectuals sought to position itself in the world, without neglecting the contradictions of national and transnational cultural networks and movements. It argues that translation was a means to modify power relationships in the field of poetry publishing and the contemporary literary arena; this ultimately changed the map of Italian cultural production and its transnational networks, thus anticipating the further developments provoked by globalisation in the 1980s.
Speaker
Dr Mila Milani
Role: Associate Professor
Organisation: University of Warwick
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