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By Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth

In this ebook, Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth explores the consequences of ideology at the English-to-German translation of children’s literature less than the socialist regime of the previous German Democratic Republic. Giving prominence to extra-textual components, the learn undertakes a detailed research of the East German censorship equipment, displaying that there has been an in depth correlation among the socialist ideology propagated by way of the regime and the booklet choice strategy itself. via an research of the contents of the print let (censorship) records and the afterwords present in many books, Thomson-Wohlgemuth demonstrates that literature was once re-written not just to placate the censor but additionally to without delay consultant the reader down the right kind ideological direction, either within the choice and interpretation of every translated text.



Thomson-Wohlgemuth starts this attractive research with a concise yet thorough historic historical past of East German kid's literature, atmosphere the context for an exam of ways the country and get together operated to manage the improvement of the style. She highlights the truth that there has been multi-level censorship at paintings, with the solidarity celebration propagating convinced ideological literary guidelines, and the publishers self-censoring whilst settling on appropriate texts for translation and publication. This book serves as an exemplary research of ways publishers collaborated with the nation in all japanese eu nations, and may be of curiosity to historians and children’s literature students alike.

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