Andrew Thacker

Bio

Andrew Thacker is Professor of Twentieth Century Literature at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author or editor of several books on modernism, including the three volumes of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (2009-13) and, most recently, Modernism, Space and the City (2019).

Contributions

“Don’t try to make me believe they’re interested in me in South America”: Reflections on Translation and Transnationalism

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In this article, I want to examine briefly some connections between transnational networks, translation, and multilingualism in modernist magazines. [1] To start, let’s consider the following instances of translated work found in a more or less random selection of modernist magazines: Richard Wright’s Black Boy in Les Temps modernes (1947); F. T. Marinetti’s “Wireless Imagination and Words at Liberty” in Poetry and Drama (1913); Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own in Sur (1935); poems by...

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