The Translation of Violence in Childrens Literature

Considering childrens literature as a powerful repository for creating and proliferating cultural and national identities, this monograph is the first academic study of childrens literature in translation from the Western Balkans. Marija Todorova looks at a broad range of childrens literature, from fiction to creative non-fiction and picture books, across five different countries in the Western Balkans, with each chapter including detailed textual and visual analysis through the predominant lens of violence. These chapters raise questions around who initiates and effectuates the selection of childrens literature from the Western Balkans for translation into English, and interrogate the role of different stakeholders, such as translators, publishers and cultural institutions in the representation and construction of these countries in translated childrens literature, both in text and visually. Given the combination of this studys interdisciplinary nature and Todorovas detailed analysis, this book will prove to be an essential resource for professional translators, researchers and students in courses in translation studies, childrens literature or area studies, especially that of countries in the Western Balkans. .