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Text Matters, Iss 15 (2025)
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ISSN 2083-2931 · Lodz University Press · 356 artikel di indeks
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Translating the “City of the Eye”: Mapping Contemporary Venice between Travel Writing and Residents’ Accounts
In this article I explore the “translational city” through the unique lens of contemporary Venice. The multiple cities that have been the subject of work on the “translational city” display different linguistic and cultural relations: from the dual city, through (post)colonial cities, to…
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A Hybrid Medium—Life (and Love) in John Ashbery’s Poetry
The article focuses on the form of John Ashbery’s long poems, with a view to discussing it as a vitalist formula. Ashbery continues the American romantic vitalism by bringing it close to perspectives provided by contemporary post-secular thought. In this context, Ashbery is a poet of what the…
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Exploring Yaoundé as a Linguistically Divided Capital City of an English and French Bilingual African Nation
This article examines the place of translation in the public space in Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon, an African nation with a threefold (German, English, and French) colonial heritage. The collected quantitative and qualitative data consisted of public space literature, i.e. outdoor…
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Majorca as a Translational Space: Creating and Questioning Identity through Translation
Majorca offers a rare combination of opportunities to develop a study of translation and space. Not only is it a site of rich historical cultural contact, but it is also a present location of contact and tension: between Spanish and Catalan; between distinct forms of Catalan; with the languages…
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A Dramaturgy of Translation: The Brussels City Theatre as a Site of Negotiation between Language Policy and Practice
State-funded city theatres play an important role in keeping a finger on the pulse of society. As porous institutions that act as meeting places between artists and citizens, they can present themselves as reflexive or subversive voices. The combination of Brussels’ idiosyncratic sociolinguistic…
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Urban Un/Belonging: Translating Pre-Partition Spaces in Old Rawalpindi, Pakistan
In this article, I propose a transgressive re/inscription of the city spaces of Old Rawalpindi through the lens of Sherry Simon’s integrated translational city theory. In the wake of the 1947 partition of the Indian sub-continent into the Muslim-majority Pakistan and the Hindu-majority India, a…
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Translational Dynamics in Urban Space: Exploring Battala’s Multilingual Cultural Encounter
“Battala” is a Bengali metonym for commercial print culture which gained popularity during the Bengal Renaissance. This print culture became a translational palimpsest, disseminating literary genres and leading to the creation of a site where high and low culture converged. Our paper examines the…
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Community Centres as Sites of Translation: Placemaking in Edinburgh
This article presents a research project comprising a series of community initiatives in Edinburgh, a city which displays a disproportionately English-heavy linguistic profile, despite the cosmopolitan influences of both migration and tourism. Our case study created sites that can be conceptualised…
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Translating Urban/Translating Ritual: An Ethnographic Study of Dev Uthan Ekadashi
Gurugram—a city located near Delhi, in the state of Haryana—is an important contributor to the country’s information technology, finance, and banking sectors. Geographically, it offers a rich amalgamation of the urban and the rural; while the urban is an eclectic mix of regions and religions, the…
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Refiguring and Normalizing Urban Space: Naguib Mahfouz’s Awlād ḥāratinā and Its English, Polish, and Spanish Translations
The Arabic term ḥāra denotes a specific topographical unit of the traditional Middle-Eastern, especially Egyptian, city. Variously translated into English—e.g., as lane, alley, but also quarter, district, neighbourhood—it belongs to the category of culture-bound terms. This article presents an…
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GG and the City: What Canada’s Major Translation Award Reveals about Its Metropolises
In this article I consider the predominance of metropolises in the Canadian publishing sector through the lens of award-winning translations. My research is based on a database of information on Canadian literary prizes (gathered through reports and websites of Canadian prize-granting organisations…
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Translating Istanbul: Divergent Voices in Travel Writing
Intersemiotic research on urban discourse provides a dynamic perspective for interdisciplinary analysis, particularly within the context of Translation Studies. Drawing on Roland Barthes’s claim that the city is a “discourse” and Kevin Lynch’s notion that the image of the city is dynamic and…
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Between Translation and Translocation: How Art Sensorially Explodes Language in the Airport Space
After Bataille, one can argue that, like the “castle, church, temple, or palace” before, nowadays the airport terminal—as elementary architecture of modern urban communication—emerges as a “grand didactic monument.” Erected to manage landside movement prior to flight, the air terminal as a…
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Translation as a Spatial Process: The Linguistic Landscape of Caroline Bergvall’s Soundworks and Installations
In a constantly evolving, interconnected world, both urban and rural space has become a symbolic site of linguistic and cultural gathering. Thus, translation implies a spatial dimension in which different voices converge to represent a plural, heterogeneous world. Among experimental artist Caroline…
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“A small and great city”: On Translating Contemporary Glasgow
The aim of this article is to explore contemporary literary depictions of Glasgow as material for translation into Polish. Urban literature constitutes both a challenge and an opportunity for translators, due to the paradoxical nature of the modern Western city—on the one hand, culture-specific…
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“The city of their fathers”: Urban Space, Memory, and Language in Stuart Dybek’s Short Fiction
Stuart Dybek is a writer invariably associated with his neighborhood of Pilsen/Little Village on Chicago’s Lower West Side. Having grown up there as a descendant of immigrants from Poland, Dybek frequently “revisits” his old neighborhood in his writing. His texts showcase the changes of the urban…
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In Search of Autonomy: Sexuality and the Promise of Liberation in Witold Gombrowicz’s Pornografia and Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint
Around the launch of the Penguin series Writers from the Other Europe in 1974, Philip Roth’s novels turned to the intersections between sexuality and Jewish-American life with an increased intensity. Roth’s choice to include Witold Gombrowicz in the series invites new perspectives on the…
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Lumpenbroletariat among the Polystyrene Butterflies: On Robert Rybicki’s The Squatters’ Gift (Dar Meneli) as Poetic Travelogue
Dar Meneli (The Squatters’ Gift)—a collection by Polish poet Robert Rybicki, a self-proclaimed happener—is a poetic travelogue through numerous languages and locales, both real and imaginary. His peripatetic poems pass through—and sometimes squat in—numerous, often industrial cities, including…