Project

Totalitarian Translation: Francoist Techniques of Text Stabilization

Code

01N16719

Duration

01 November 2019 → 31 October 2025

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Jeroen Vandaele

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Development of methods and techniques
- Spanish language
- Comparative literature studies
- Literary translation
- Poetics

Keywords

Francoism translation ideology censorship propaganda

Project description

Great works are infinitely meaningful, semantically unstable. By contrast, Franco’s (1939-75) strategy was to stabilize the meaning of public discourse. How did the Francoist censorship hermeneutics deal with interpretive (in)stability? Which text-stabilizing techniques do Francoist translations exhibit? This project involves a status quaestionis and a self-developed case (translation from the French, English, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, or Swedish).