Indirect literary translation and intercultural communication: crossing borders in the Neighbours with a Go-Between project

Abstract

The paper presents the project entitled Neighbours with a Go-Between that was carried out by the University of Klagenfurt (Austria) and the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) between 2016 and 2019, combining indirect literary translation and intercultural communication. Based on the analysis of student reports, the study shows how the task of collaborative indirect literary translation helped form a temporary community of practice, which in turn enabled the crossing of several types of boundaries and fostered intercultural learning. Članek obravnava projekt z naslovom »Neighbours with a Go-Between«, ki sta ga med letoma 2016 in 2019 izvedli Univerza v Celovcu (Avstrija) in Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenija), ter združuje posredno književno prevajanje z medkulturnim sporazumevanjem. Raziskava temelji na analizi študentskih poročil in pokaže, kako je dejavnost v obliki sodelovalnega posrednega književnega prevoda pomagala oblikovati začasno skupnost prakse (community of practice), ki je nadalje omogočila prečkanje več različnih vrst meja in poglobljeno medkulturno učenje.