The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature
Edited by Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pająk, Catherine W. Hollis, Celiese Lypka, Vara Neverow
- Explores Woolf’s impact on primarily contemporary writers around the world whose work needs to be further recognised on the global stage
- Truly global in its approach: contributors represent or write about all regions of the world, including West and East Europe, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, North and South America, East and South Asia, and the Pacific Islands
- Features new literary trends, especially biofiction and other genres, including film, drama, and other fiction
- Addresses global issues like translation and transnational reception studies
To capture the many Woolfian currents circulating around the world, the twenty-three chapters in this companion examine the global responses Woolf’s work has inspired and explore her worldwide influence. Authors address ways Woolf is received by writers, publishers, reading audiences and academics in countries around the world; how she is translated into multiple languages; and the transformation of her life into global contemporary biofiction.
This collection is dialogic and comparative, incorporating both transnational and local tendencies insofar as they epitomize Woolf’s global reception and legacy. It contests the ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ binary, offering new models for Woolf global studies and promoting cross-cultural understandings.
List of contributorsList of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Planetary and Global Receptions of Woolf
1. ‘What a curse these translators are!’ Woolf’s early German reception - Daniel Göske and Christian Weiß
2. The translation and reception of Virginia Woolf in Romania (1926–89) - Adriana Varga
3. The reception of Virginia Woolf and modernism in early twentieth-century Australia - Suzanne Bellamy
4. Dialogues between South America and Europe: Victoria Ocampo channels Virginia Woolf - Cristina Carluccio
5. From Julia Kristeva to Paulo Mendes Campos: Impossible conversations with Virginia Woolf - Davi Pinho
6. Three Guineas and the Cassandra project – Christa Wolf’s reading of Virginia Woolf during the Cold War - Henrike Krause
7. Virginia Woolf’s literary heritage in Russian translations and interpretations - Maria Bent
8. Virginia Woolf’s feminist writing in Estonian translation culture - Raili Marling
9. Virginia Woolf in Arabic: A feminist paratextual reading of translation strategies - Hala Kamal
10. OPEN ACCESS Solid and living: The Italian Woolf Renaissance - Elisa Bolchi
11. Tracing A Room of One’s Own in sub-Saharan Africa, 1929–2019 - Jeanne Dubino
Part II. Woolf’s Legacies in Literature
12. Virginia Woolf’s enduring presence in Uruguay - Lindsey Cordery
13. Virginia Woolf’s reception and impact on Brazilian Women’s literature - Maria A. de Oliveira
14. English and Mexican dogs: Spectres of traumatic pasts in Virginia Woolf’s Flush and María Luisa Puga’s Las razones del lago - Lourdes Parra-Lazcano
15. A new perspective on Mary Carmichael: Yuriko Miyamoto’s novels and A Room of One’s Own - Hogara Matsumoto
16. A Room of One’s Own: A cross-cultural voyage between Virginia Woolf and the contemporary Chinese woman writer Chen Ran’ - Zhongfeng Huang
17. In search of spaces of their own: Woolf, feminism and women’s poetry from China - Justyna Jaguścik
18. Trans-Dialogues: Exploring Virginia Woolf’s feminist legacy to contemporary Polish literature - Paulina Pająk
19. Clarissa Dalloway’s global itinerary: From London to Paris and Sydney’ - Monica Latham
20. Virginia Woolf and French writers: Contemporaneity, idolisation, iconisation - Anne-Laure Rigeade
21. The dream work of a nation: From Virginia Woolf to Elizabeth Bowen to Mary Lavin - Pat Laurence
22. Great poets do not die: Maggie Gee’s Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014) as metaphor for contemporary biofiction - Bethany Layne
23. The Woolf girl: A mother-daughter story with Lidia Yuknavitch and Virginia Woolf - Catherine W. Hollis
Index
This collection is just what we need – a reminder of how Woolf’s work circulates world-wide and the enormous impact it continues to have. From nearly all regions of the world, its contributors consider questions of translation, reception, and influence from delightfully wide-ranging perspectives while the editors place Woolf firmly in our ongoing conversations about location, globalisation and planetarity.
The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature is certainly a major addition to the rich, varied, and highly competitive field of Woolf scholarship, one which is bound to become an indispensable point of reference for any reader who wishes to consider the past and present relationships between the writer and the world.
