Translations and Semi-Peripheral Cultures

Alex Goldis, is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Letters, Babes,-Bolyai University, Cluj- Napoca. He is also co-editor-in-chief of the "Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory". His work deals with modern and contemporary century Romanian literature, digital humanities, and World Literature Studies. He is the author ofThe Entrenchments of Literary Criticism: From Socialist Realism to Aesthetic Autonomy (2011) and Methodological Updates in the Romanian Criticism of the 1970s and 1980s: Theories, Methods, Critics (2013).S,tefan Baghiu is an Assistant Professor of Romanian Literature and Literary Theory with the Department of Romance Studies at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. He co-edited The Culture of Translation in Romania (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2018), Ruralism and Literature in Romania (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019), and Beyond the Iron Curtain:Revisiting the Literary System of Communist Romania. He is the coordinator of The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel.

Table of Contents - Notes on Contributors - Introduction - The Uneven Exchange within World Literature - Market Selection and Inter- peripheral Imports - Social Entanglements and Cultural Transfers - List of Illustrations