Spaces of Translation: European Magazine Cultures, c.1945-65

该项目将研究来自三个国家(英国、法国、德国)的一小批重要的文学和文化杂志，以考虑它们如何通过翻译探索和构建从第二次世界大战结束到1960年代中期的欧洲认同概念。非殖民主义的迅速转变、欧洲文化的美国化、反军国主义的兴起，以及冷战引发的战略和意识形态冲突，都促使人们持续重新评估欧洲理念所代表的内容，以及是否或如何实现这一理念。该项目利用期刊作为“欧洲空间”的概念(Broll sma和Wijnterp，2018)解决了以下研究问题：在二战灾难之后，英国、法国和德国的期刊文化如何利用翻译来重新构建欧洲的愿景？该项目的核心是对正在考虑的杂志中进行的翻译实践的关注：在这个时期，我们语料库中诗歌、小说、批评和非小说作品的翻译有什么意义？翻译的文本如何作为打造新的欧洲身份的工具？跨越语言边界是否会产生跨越国界的联盟？相反，在非翻译的实践中，我们是否看到了对民族语言和身份的新断言？这一时期的双语杂志(如《两座城市》、《亚当》、《门》和《达斯托》)是将不同国家的文学汇聚在一起，还是标志着它们的持续分化？到目前为止，很少有研究探讨文学和文化期刊如何应对战后的动荡岁月，为知识分子提供一个平台，宣传他们对欧洲的愿景，建立跨国网络，并在文化承诺中积极成为国际主义者。我们将举办一系列活动来探讨这些问题，包括研讨会、国际会议、面向公众的展览和一个网站，其中包含所研究杂志的翻译材料。此外，我们还将出版多篇文章和一本共同编辑的散文集，以反映该项目的工作。

This project will study a small constellation of important literary and cultural magazines from three countries (Britain, France, Germany) in order to consider how, through translation, they explore and construct notions of European identity in the period following from the end of World War Two to the mid-1960s. Rapid shifts towards decolonisation, the Americanisation of European culture, the rise of anti-militarism and the strategic and ideological conflicts instigated by the Cold War all stimulated an ongoing reassessment of what the European idea stood for and whether or how it might be achieved. Using the notion of periodicals as 'European spaces' (Brolsma and Wijnterp, 2018) the project addresses the following research question: how does periodical culture in Britain, France, and Germany use translation to reconfigure a vision for Europe after the catastrophe of World War Two? At the heart of the project lies a focus on the practice of translation as carried out in the magazines under consideration: what is the significance of the translation of works of poetry, fiction, criticism, and non-fiction in our corpus in this period? How do translated texts operate as vehicles for the forging of new European identities? Does the crossing of linguistic boundaries produce alliances across national borders? Conversely, in the practice of non-translation do we see a new assertion of national languages and identities? Do bilingual magazines in this period (e.g. Two Cities, Adam, The Gate/Das Tor) work to bring diverse national literatures together, or mark their continued divergence?So far, little research has examined how literary and cultural journals responded to these turbulent post-war years by acting as a platform for intellectuals to promote their visions of Europe, forging transnational networks and being actively internationalist in their cultural commitments. We will mount a range of events to explore these questions, including workshops, an international conference, a public-facing exhibition, and a website with translated materials from the magazines studied. In addition we will also publish a number of articles and a co-edited book of essays to reflect the work of the project.