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Women of the word : translation and political activism in the Age of Revolutions
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Charlotte A. LERG , Johan ÖSTLING and Jana WEIß (eds), History of intellectual culture : modes of publication, Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023, History of intellectual culture ; 2, pp. 111-122
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PAPALEXOPOULOU, Elisavet, Women of the word : translation and political activism in the Age of Revolutions, in Charlotte A. LERG , Johan ÖSTLING and Jana WEIß (eds), History of intellectual culture : modes of publication, Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023, History of intellectual culture ; 2, pp. 111-122 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77889
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the age-old system of empires was beginning to crumble. People were trying to reimagine the political space, and geographies in Europe were shifting. In this intellectual landscape of upheaval, translation served as a powerful tool enabling vocabularies and ideas of revolution to travel from context to context. Translating texts into one’s language was a scholarly activity permitted for women and it was frequently used by female writers as a space where they could unfold their ideas and influence their contemporaries. Although there has lately been a renewed interest in translators and translation, these aspects are still undervalued as a source by historians of knowledge and ideas due to a misconception that translation lacks originality. Yet, the expressive and intercultural potential of the translated word and the insights that paratexts surrounding translations have to offer tell an exciting story – a story of cultural mediation also existing outside the textual world and providing the promise of political participation, even under the dark shadow of gender power relations.
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Published online: 24 October 2023