Book Club Meetings as Micro Public Spheres: Translated Literature and Cosmopolitanism

Autor/in	Tekgül, Duygu
Titel	Book Club Meetings as Micro Public Spheres: Translated Literature and Cosmopolitanism
Quelle	In: Language and Intercultural Communication, 19 (2019) 5, S.380-392 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Tekgül, Duygu)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1470-8477
DOI	10.1080/14708477.2019.1581794
Schlagwörter	Fiction; Clubs; Books; Group Discussion; Ethnography; Participant Observation; Cultural Differences; Translation; Literature; Second Languages; Aesthetics; Intercultural Communication; Foreign Countries; Humor; Cultural Awareness; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fiktion; Club; Klub; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Gruppendiskussion; Ethnografie; Teilnehmende Beobachtung; Kultureller Unterschied; Literatur; Second language; Zweitsprache; Ästhetik; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Ausland; Humoristische Darstellung; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Großbritannien
Abstract	This study seeks to analyze book group discussions on translated fiction in terms of micro public spheres. The paper explores the potentials of this perspective based on ethnographic data collected through participant observation with reading groups located across Britain. The discussion demonstrates the public sphere in operation beyond the confines of the book club meeting, where literature in translation provides fragments of cultural difference and where the aesthetic-affective mode facilitates open dialogue, contributing to critical-reflexive understanding. The article illustrates the interplay of the normative and the actual aspects of the public sphere through the tension between cosmopolitanism in contemporary cultural consumption and the entertainment value of essentialist representations. The contribution points to the nexus between translation and intercultural communication. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01