Socialist Transnationality in Translation: Dutch-Language Literature in East Central Europe and the Balkans,...

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Professor or Dr. Wilken Engelbrecht (Univerzita Palackého, Krížkovského, Czech Republic) Professor or Dr. Ton van Kalmthout (Center for the Arts in Society, Leiden University, Netherlands)

Socialist Transnationality in Translation

Name: Socialist Transnationality in Translation
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ISBN: 9798765113745

Dutch-Language Literature in East Central Europe and the Balkans, 1945–1990

Professor or Dr. Wilken Engelbrecht (Univerzita Palackého, Krížkovského, Czech Republic), Professor or Dr. Ton van Kalmthout (Center for the Arts in Society, Leiden University, Netherlands), Professor or Dr. Pawel Zajas (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

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Bloomsbury Academic
05 February 2026

Translation & interpretation; Literary studies: from c 1900 -

The first study examining the translation and reception of Dutch literature in Eastern and Central Europe during the restrictive era of socialist and totalitarian political systems.

In nearly all Central Eastern European and Balkan countries in the years between 1945-1990, there was a considerable increase in the number of titles translated from Dutch into the respective native languages. Socialist Transnationality in Translation explores how translators and publishers in Central East Europe and Yugoslavia were able to present a rather representative picture of Dutch and Flemish literature to readers notwithstanding restrictions caused by the official political doctrine of Socialist Realism as well as censorship and economic difficulties posed by a lack of foreign currency to pay translation rights.

Beginning with a brief overview of the history of the region from 1945-1990, this volume examines the development of Dutch literature, then turns to the literary norms of the time as partly dictated by ideology during this period. The volume then looks at the development of translations from Dutch in connection with the development of Dutch as an academic subject – in many cases, the increase in Dutch translations was joined with the foundation of lectureships or chairs of Dutch Studies – and discusses the actors involved in the transfer of foreign literature in the region and the influence of censorship on that transfer. The work concludes with a discussion of what was published and why, based on the interaction between ideology on the one hand and the genuine literary interest of publishers and translators on the other.

Edited by: Professor or Dr. Wilken Engelbrecht (Univerzita Palackého Krížkovského Czech Republic), Professor or Dr. Ton van Kalmthout (Center for the Arts in Society, Leiden University, Netherlands), Professor or Dr. Pawel Zajas (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9798765113745
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 05 February 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Accelerating Research into the Transnational Circulation of Dutch-language Literature – An Introductory Chapter Ton van Kalmthout and Pawel Zajas 2. Poems from Belgium and the Netherlands: Dutch Literature in the GDR Pawel Zajas 3. The Bestial Grim of Capitalism: What Soviet People were Supposed to Learn from the Dutch/Language Literature Irina Michajlova 4. From the Country of the Golden Lion: Dutch Literature in Poland Pawel Zajas 5. The Mouse Discipline in Czechoslovakia – Olga Krijtová and Júlia Májeková Present their View on Dutch Literature to Czech and Slovak Readers Wilken Engelbrecht and Benjamin Bossaert 6. At the Limit of Possibilities: Hungarian Cultural Mediators and the Transfer of Dutch Literature Gábor Pusztai 7. A Surprising Diversity. How Aesthetic Principles Ruled in Communist Romania and Dutch Literature Could Thrive Alexa Stoicescu 8. Peering Over the Soviet (and French) Glasses? Dutch and Flemish Literature in Bulgaria from Multatuli to Panorama Michel De Dobbeleer 9. From Yugoslavia with Passion: The Transnational Flow of Dutch Literature at the Crossroads between East and West Jelica Novakovic and Anita Srebnik 10. Between State Control and Literary Interest Wilken Engelbrecht Bibliography Index

Wilken Engelbrecht is Professor of Dutch Philology, Chair of Dutch Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia, and Chair of Dutch language at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), Poland. Ton van Kalmthout is a Senior Researcher in Literary History at the NL-Lab of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam and Professor of Dutch Literature at the Leiden University Center for the Arts in Society, Netherlands. Pawel Zajas is Professor of Literary Theory and Dutch Literature at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, and Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.