CLIC is pleased to announce the publication of the special issue 'Trans(portable): English in the World' for English Text Construction, edited by Eva Ulrike Pirker (VUB) and Julie Deconinck (VUB).
Table of Contents
Eva Ulrike Pirker & Julie Deconinck, English moves: Hegemony, hybridity, and the (trans)portability of English in literature, translation, and beyond the page, pp. 111–135
Maxime Louise Honinx & Marjolein Goethals, An ‘English home’: Constructions of familiarity and instability in Lucy Atkinson’s Recollections of Tartar steppes and their inhabitants (1863), pp. 136–165
Dina Batii, Transportable but untranslatable? A style-sensitive approach to the Russian translation of Virginia Woolf’s essay On Being Ill, pp. 166–190
Yanrong Wang & Janine Hauthal, Black experience, bajan, and musico-literary intermediality in Austin Clarke’s They Never Told Me, pp. 191–212
Chiara Arcadio, Transparent foreignization: Leila Aboulela’s literary practice in The Translator, pp. 213–234
Ceydanur Temurok, “I [...] wore my English like a mask”: English as an ambivalent world of possibilities in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, pp. 235–255
Alexandra Sanchez, Transportable audio descriptions of diversity? Queen Charlotte and the limits of Netflix’s inclusion strategy, pp. 256–281