Cold War Women
Subtitle: Female Translators of Russian and Soviet Literature in the Twentieth Century
By: Cathy McAteer
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Literatures, Cultures, Translation
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2024
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9798765112274
Subjects: Russian literature; Translations into English; Women translators; C 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period); Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Literary studies: from c 1900 -
Description: Presents original archival research on eight largely unknown émigrée translators whose work during the Cold War actively contributed to and, in some cases, decisively shaped the reception of Russian and Soviet literature throughout the English-speaking world.  In this open access volume, Cathy McAteer profiles female translators of Russian and Soviet literature into English during the last century, focusing on the UK, USSR and US.  Through cultural mediation, most often translation, each woman represents a unique encounter with Cold War politics.   Drawing from extensive archival material, including British Intelligence files, reviews, publications and memoirs, Cold War Women sketches the microhistories of eight complex and occasionally controversial bilingual women: Moura Budberg, Vera Traill, Evelyn Manning, Margaret Wettlin, Violet Dutt, Edith Bone, Olga Carlisle, and Mirra Ginsburg. Many of these women, in addition to their work as translators and publishers of Soviet literature, led complex political lives that brought them under scrutiny for espionage, and even suspected assassination.  Cold War Women explores how literary translation became a uniquely enabling career for each of these women, both in personally challenging gender norms, and in showing translation's soft power for galvanizing propagandist and humanitarian change. The book thus rehabilitates forgotten but influential female translators of Russian literature whose contributions helped to shape the Anglophone reception of Russian and Soviet literature both during and beyond their fraught historical moment.  The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Exeter.
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Table of contents: title: List of FIgures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations  Introduction 1. Out of the Fire: Russophone Émigrée Translator-Mediators to the UK 2. Desperately Seeking Socialism: Ideological British Émigrées in the USSR 3. Shifting Ideologies: Translation in Testing Times 4. A Different Ideology: Russophone Émigrée Translator-Mediators to the US Conclusion: From Cold War Women to Today  Bibligography Index