Internationale Neerlandistiek - Volume 58, Issue 1, 2020

Abstract Research among twentieth-century Dutch and Flemish emigrants has shown that they usually gave up their mother tongue quickly, within two or three generations, after emigration. In the twenty-first century the situation of emigrants has changed drastically: due to the internet and social media it is much easier to keep in touch with the homelands. Does this have consequences for the preservation of the Dutch lang Read More

Abstract This chapter seeks to analyse the role literary translators play in the selection, reception and image-building processes of Dutch-language translated literature into Italian. Drawing on interviews carried out with nine Italian literary translators, this study will try to shed some light not only on the important role translators play in the genesis of a translation – which is why they could be considered cultural mediators – but als Read More