Description
Drawing on extensive archival research and a corpus of transnational literary translations, this book examines the interplay of affect, censorship, and literary translation during late Francoism in Spain. The volume moves the focus beyond traditional studies of the literary landscape amidst Francoist censorship to approach translation as a process of circulation shaped by affective encounters among translators, editors, publishers, readers, censors, and institutions. Through correspondence, censorship files, editorial records, paratexts, interviews, and translators’ notes, the book reconstructs “affective responses” to offer unique insights into translation and cultural transfer in contexts of institutional censorship. Such dynamics are explored through the translations and publishing histories of a corpus of transgressive twentieth-century novels by Djuna Barnes, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, and Lawrence Durrell, whose trajectories connect Spain to wider transnational networks of literary production and exchange, particularly through Argentina. By bringing affect theory into dialogue with archival and socio-historical approaches to translation, the book demonstrates how censorship operates not simply upon translated texts but through relationships, negotiations, and affect-laden processes of cultural transfer. It offers a new lens through which to understand literary translation under authoritarianism as simultaneously textual, sociopolitical, relational, and deeply affective. This book will be of interest to scholars of translation studies, literary translation, comparative literature, Hispanic studies, censorship studies, and publishing history.