Soft power, 'international literature', and prizing the other: Restless Books and the Prize for New Immigrant Writing.
Situated at the intersection of international relations, the sociology of literature, translation studies, textual analysis, and global literary studies, this article focuses on Restless Books' consecratory practices (publication of translated literature and prizing) to shift the directionality of t...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 162 - 184 |
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