Culture(s) and Authenticity: The Politics of Translation and the Poetics of Imitation - Hardcover

by Agnieszka Pantuchowicz (Other), Agnieszka Pantuchowicz (Editor), Anna Warso (Editor)

This book critically analyzes various means by which the authentic is searched for, staged, admired, dismissed, replicated or simply taken for granted. What is at work in such discursive practices is a poetics of imitation. This is seen as a paradoxical kind of poetics which renounces the authenticity of the created text.

Author Biography

Agnieszka Pantuchowicz and Anna Warso are assistant professors at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland, where they teach literature and translation.