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Chapter 12 - The State of Things

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2022

By
Chad Post
Edited by
Jan Steyn
Jan Steyn
Affiliation:
University of Iowa
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Summary

To the casual observer living in an anglophone country, the past decade has ushered in a new golden age of literature in translation. Yet, a closer look at the data reveals a bleaker picture. As we move away from the ‘3 per cent problem’ and start to address new, more complex elements of translation and commerce, we need to find new terms to discuss what we do, new business practices that are born from non-cutthroat capitalist strategies, and new forms of revenue that will allow all of us to achieve what we really want: more readers for more books by more voices from around the world.

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Translation
Crafts, Contexts, Consequences
 , pp. 194 - 208
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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