A Study of Literature Translated by Galician Publishing Houses Established after 2003 during the Period 2005 to 2012

  • Lucia Cernadas University of Oxford, United Kindom
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/ced.2478
Keywords: translation, Galician literary system, publishing house, normalización

Abstract

This paper studies the translations published between 2005 and 2012 by 25 publishing houses incorporated into the Galician publishing field since 2003 regarding their levels of publication, issue date, literary genre and source language. At the same time, it reflects upon the relationship between these publications and the cultural normalización discourse. After presenting and discussing relevant data from the Projeto Livro Galego database (Samartim & Cernadas 2020), it is shown that Spanish and English are the main source languages for these works, while the most translated genre is children and young adults literature, followed by prose fiction. This is, however, mostly due to a minority of publishing houses that concentrate many of the publications, while the remaining businesses show more varied translation plans. Also, data shows that the translation sub-field in the selected period is dependent on the field of power. Finally, the idea of normalización is presented as one of the main functions of Galician literary translation. This analysis aims at contributing empirical information, and some critical remarks, to the understanding of the cultural model of a European minoritized language in one of its fundamental expressions.

Received: 18 April 2022
Accepted: 12 May 2022

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Author Biography

Lucia Cernadas, University of Oxford, United Kindom

Lecturer in Galician at the University of Oxford. After obtaining two degrees in Galician and Portuguese Linguistic and Literary Studies and English Linguistic and Literary Studies, respectively, at the University of A Coruña, she studied the Master’s Program in Literature, Culture and Diversity (Galician and Portuguese area) at the same university. Her current research interests are the dynamics of the Galician publishing field on the 21st century, with a special focus on the subfields of translation and poetry.

Published
2022-07-22
How to Cite
Cernadas, Lucia. 2022. “A Study of Literature Translated by Galician Publishing Houses Established After 2003 During the Period 2005 to 2012”. Deusto Journal of European Studies, no. 04 (July), 231-63. https://doi.org/10.18543/ced.2478.
Issue
No. 04 (2022): SPECIAL ISSUE. Linguas minoritarias e futuro de Europa. Minority Languages and the Future of Europe
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