Made in Canada, Read in Spain: : Essays on the Translation and Circulation of English-Canadian Literature

Made in Canada, Read in Spain is an edited collection of essays on the impact, diffusion, and translation of English Canadian literature in Spain. Given the size of the world's Spanish-speaking population (some 350 million people) and the importance of the Spanish language in global publishing, it appeals to publishers, cultural agents and translators, as well as to Canadianists and Translation Studies scholars. By analyzing more than 100 sources of online and print reviews, this volume covers a wide-range of areas and offers an ambitious scope that goes from the institutional side of the Spanish-Anglo-Canadian exchange to issues on the insertion of CanLit in the Spanish curriculum; from 'nation branding', translation, and circulation of Canadian authors in autonomous communities (such as Catalonia) to the official acknowledgement of some authors by the Spanish literary system -Margaret Atwood and Leonard Cohen were awarded the prestigious Prince of Asturias prize in 2008 and 2011, respectively. "Made in Canada, Read in Spain is an edited collection of essays on the impact, diffusion, and translation of English Canadian literature in Spain. Given the size of the world's Spanish-speaking population (some 350 million people) and the importance of the Spanish language in global publishing, it appeals to publishers, cultural agents and translators, as well as to Canadianists and Translation Studies scholars. By analyzing more than 100 sources of online and print reviews, this volume covers a wide-range of areas and offers an ambitious scope that goes from the institutional side of the Spanish-Anglo-Canadian exchange to issues on the insertion of CanLit in the Spanish curriculum; from 'nation branding', translation, and circulation of Canadian authors in autonomous communities (such as Catalonia) to the official acknowledgement of some authors by the Spanish literary system -Margaret Atwood and Leonard Cohen were awarded the prestigious Prince of Asturias prize in 2008 and 2011, respectively."--Publisher's description Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading CanLit in Spain Chapter 1 Contextual and Institutional Coordinates of the Transference of Anglo-Canadian Literature Chapter 2 Cosmopolitans at Home: the Spanishness of Canadian Women Writers Chapter 3 Translation, Nation Branding and Indo-chic: The Circulation and Reception of South Asian Chapter 4 Canadian into Catalan: The Translation of Anglo-Canadian Authors in Catalonia Chapter 5 A Prince of Asturias Award for the Queen of Canadian Letters: Reading Margaret Atwood’s Chapter 6 A Spanish Passion for the Canadian Short Story: Reader Responses to Alice Munro’s Fictio Chapter 7 Douglas Coupland’s Generation X and its Spanish Counterparts Chapter 8 Home Truths: Teaching Canadian Literatures in Spanish Universities Works cited Appendix Contributors Index The volume is an edited collection of essays on the impact of English Canadian literature in Spain. Its relevance is related to the importance of the Spanish language in global publishing. By analyzing more than 100 sources, this volume covers areas that go from the institutional side of the Spanish-Anglo-Canadian exchange to the official acknowledgement of authors like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro by the Spanish literary system Offers a collection of essays on the impact of English Canadian literature in Spain. By analyzing more than 100 sources, this volume covers areas that go from the institutional side of the Spanish-Anglo-Canadian exchange to the official acknowledgement of authors like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro by the Spanish literary system.