Translation, Collaboration, Mediation

<P><EM>Translation, Collaboration, Mediation</EM> brings together reflections by leading and emerging scholars from Europe and North America on the work of female cultural agents in the Iberian Peninsula during the first half of the twentieth century. The women of this period have been the subject of several studies that seek to recover their cultural contributions, often forgotten or overlooked due to the gender of the creators.</P> <P>This collection takes stock of this cultural recovery phenomenon and augments its line of enquiry in two interrelated ways: first, by broadening the strict Spanish- and Castilian-language focus prevalent in most studies on the topic to date; and second, by reflecting on the often under-recognized and under-theorized cultural labour that women of the period carried out as mediators between languages, regions, and publics. The fact that women's cultural production often took the form of translations, journalism, criticism, activism, or organizing – activities considered secondary or marginal to original literary or artistic creation – serves as a touchstone for the analyses in this collection. The book features a historical and theoretical introduction, thirteen thematically grouped case-study chapters, and a closing epilogue by leading feminist translation scholar Olga Castro.</P> <P>Drawing from feminist translation theory and recent studies on cultural mediators and networks, the volume illuminates the interconnected, collaborative, transnational, and translingual nature of Iberian cultural production in the first half of the twentieth century, and the decisive role of women within it.</P>