Directionality/Flow

• Authors: Paweł Jędrzejko
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Paweł JędrzejkoDepartment of American and Canadian StudiesInstitute of English Cultures and LiteraturesUniversity of Silesia in KatowicePolandDirectionality/FlowAbstract: The present volume, generously guest-edited by Claudio Salmeri of the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, offers a multifaceted insight into how American values have been “translated into Italian” and accommodated within the cultural space of twenty-first century Italy. The volume’s title, Trans/Lazio, is thus both a gesture in recognition of the complexity of the Italian cultural space and an attempt to accommodate theoretical premises of polysystem theory in a study of the mutual relations between Italy and America as simultaneously donor and acceptor cultures, simultaneously distinctive and accommodating. Emphasizing these values, the present, aptly titled, issue ushers in the second decade of RIAS, a journal univocally dedicated to the hemispheric and transoceanic study of the Americas.

Keywords

EN

directionality of value transfer; polysystem theory; translated literature in national canons

• Publisher: University of Silesia Press
• Journal: Review of International American Studies
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2017-11-30

Contributors

author

Paweł Jędrzejko