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How does a book become an international bestseller? What happens to it as it is translated into different languages, contexts, and societies? How is it changed by the intellectual environments it encounters? What does the transnational circulation mean for its reception back home? Exploring the international life of a particularly long-lived and widely traveled book, Isabel Hofmeyr follows The Pilgrim's Progress as it circulates through multiple contexts--and into some 200 languages--focusing on Africa, where 80 of the translations occurred. This feat of literary history is based on intensive research that criss-crossed among London, Georgia, Kingston, Bedford (John Bunyan's hometown), and much of sub-Saharan Africa. Finely written and unusually wide-ranging, it accounts for how The Pilgrim's Progress traveled abroad with the Protestant mission movement, was adapted and reworked by the societies into which it traveled, and, finally, how its circulation throughout the empire affected Bunyan's standing back in England. The result is a new intellectual approach to Bunyan--one that weaves together British, African, and Caribbean history with literary and translation studies and debates over African Christianity and mission. Even more important, this book is a rare example of a truly worldly study of "world literature"--and of the critical importance of translation, both linguistic and cultural.
Pelerinages chretiens dans la litterature. --- Litterature africaine --- Roman chretien anglais --- Anglais (Langue) --- Books and reading --- Christianity and literature --- Translating and interpreting --- African literature --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. --- Christian fiction, English --- English language --- Influence anglaise. --- Histoire et critique. --- Traduction en langues africaines. --- English influences. --- History and criticism. --- Translating into African languages. --- Bunyan, John, --- Influence. --- Appreciation --- Traductions en langues africaines --- Translations into African languages --- Pilgrim's progress (Bunyan, John) --- Africa.
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English language --- Christian fiction, English --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature --- African literature --- Translating and interpreting --- Christianity and literature --- Books and reading --- Translating into African languages --- History and criticism --- English influences --- Bunyan, John, --- Translations into African languages --- Appreciation --- Influence --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. --- Anglais (Langue) --- Roman chrétien anglais --- Littérature africaine --- Pèlerinages chrétiens dans la littérature. --- Art appreciation. --- Books and reading. --- Christian fiction, English. --- Christianity and literature. --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Translating and interpreting. --- The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come (Bunyan). --- Vertalingen. --- Roman religieux anglais --- Christianisme et littérature --- Traduction et interprétation --- Translating into African languages. --- History and criticism. --- English influences. --- Traduction en langues africaines. --- Histoire et critique. --- Influence anglaise. --- Bunyan, John (1628-1688). --- Bunyan, John. --- Influence. --- Traductions en langues africaines --- Appréciation --- Pilgrim's progress (Bunyan, John). --- Pilgrim's progress. --- Africa. --- Christian spirituality --- Christian church history --- English literature --- Bunyan, John --- English language - Translating into African languages --- Christian fiction, English - History and criticism --- African literature - English influences --- Translating and interpreting - Africa --- Christianity and literature - Africa --- Books and reading - Africa --- Bunyan, John, - 1628-1688. - Pilgrim's progress --- Bunyan, John, - 1628-1688 - Translations into African languages - History and criticism --- Bunyan, John, - 1628-1688 - Appreciation - Africa --- Bunyan, John, - 1628-1688 - Influence --- Bunyan, John, - 1628-1688
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