Abstract:Over the past thirty years, crime fiction, children’s literature, comics and, to a lesser extent, romance novels have received growing attention from translation scholars. Drawing on an analysis of this translation studies literature and interviews conducted with translators working in different publishing sectors, this paper revisits the hypothesis of Clem Robyns (1990), who proposed that non-canonical literary translations are the belles infidèles of the twentieth century. In a spirit reflecting the evolutio… Show more
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