Socialist Transnationality in Translation: Dutch-Language Literature in East Central Europe and the Balkans, 1945–1990

Author:   Professor or Dr. Wilken Engelbrecht (Univerzita Palackého, Krížkovského, Czech Republic) ,  Professor or Dr. Ton van Kalmthout (Center for the Arts in Society, Leiden University, Netherlands) ,  Professor or Dr. Pawel Zajas (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Pages:   328
Publication Date:   05 February 2026
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Socialist Transnationality in Translation: Dutch-Language Literature in East Central Europe and the Balkans, 1945–1990


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Author:   Professor or Dr. Wilken Engelbrecht (Univerzita Palackého, Krížkovského, Czech Republic) ,  Professor or Dr. Ton van Kalmthout (Center for the Arts in Society, Leiden University, Netherlands) ,  Professor or Dr. Pawel Zajas (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9798765113745


Pages:   328
Publication Date:   05 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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1. Accelerating Research into the Transnational Circulation of Dutch-language Literature – An Introductory Chapter Ton van Kalmthout and Pawel Zajas 2. Poems from Belgium and the Netherlands: Dutch Literature in the GDR Pawel Zajas 3. The Bestial Grim of Capitalism: What Soviet People were Supposed to Learn from the Dutch/Language Literature Irina Michajlova 4. From the Country of the Golden Lion: Dutch Literature in Poland Pawel Zajas 5. The Mouse Discipline in Czechoslovakia – Olga Krijtová and Júlia Májeková Present their View on Dutch Literature to Czech and Slovak Readers Wilken Engelbrecht and Benjamin Bossaert 6. At the Limit of Possibilities: Hungarian Cultural Mediators and the Transfer of Dutch Literature Gábor Pusztai 7. A Surprising Diversity. How Aesthetic Principles Ruled in Communist Romania and Dutch Literature Could Thrive Alexa Stoicescu 8. Peering Over the Soviet (and French) Glasses? Dutch and Flemish Literature in Bulgaria from Multatuli to Panorama Michel De Dobbeleer 9. From Yugoslavia with Passion: The Transnational Flow of Dutch Literature at the Crossroads between East and West Jelica Novakovic and Anita Srebnik 10. Between State Control and Literary Interest Wilken Engelbrecht Bibliography Index

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Wilken Engelbrecht is Professor of Dutch Philology, Chair of Dutch Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia, and Chair of Dutch language at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), Poland. Ton van Kalmthout is a Senior Researcher in Literary History at the NL-Lab of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam and Professor of Dutch Literature at the Leiden University Center for the Arts in Society, Netherlands. Pawel Zajas is Professor of Literary Theory and Dutch Literature at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, and Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

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