Victoria Baena
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Baena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Baena |
| SIGNATURE | BAENA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6545-7015 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The translator's task
Recent debates in translation theory have moved beyond hegemonic – and gendered – conceptions of ‘fidelity’ and ‘betrayal’ to consider translation’s transformative, rather than derivative, effects. This essay builds on this body of scholarship to propose translation as a capacious, self-reflexive idiom for articulating literary influence in a multilingual frame. Beginning with the understudied influence of Jorge Luis Borges on Harold Bloom, I the…
Cartographies of Region and Empire
Augustine Fouillée's (alias G. Bruno's) Le tour de la France par deux enfants, a children's geography textbook initially published in 1877, has long been considered a nation-building tool in the Third Republic. This essay draws on critical approaches to cartography in order to show how the contradictory modes of mapping throughout the Tour can clarify its generic complexity. Such forms of spatial knowledge would take on new resonances through the…
Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust
Provincial
This essay sketches out how “the provinces” became a central (if semi-imagined) geography in nineteenth-century culture, usually opposed to—though ultimately inextricable from—the development of capitalist and colonial modernity. Surveying recent criticism on the Victorian provincial novel, especially its imbrication with broader scales and networks, I suggest that recent scholarship in critical cartography and feminist theory offers a way to rec…
Viewing, reading, and listening to the trials in Eastern Europe
In the wake of recent scholarly works dedicated to the visual history of the Holocaust, on the one hand, and to the history of trials for war crimes and/or against political opponents in Eastern Europe, on the other, this introduction to the thematic issue of Cahiers du Monde russe proposes recasting the terms of the debate : by expanding the scope of the inquiry to relations between visual, audio and written sources, it revises our understanding…
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Viewing, reading, and listening to the trials in Eastern Europe
In the wake of recent scholarly works dedicated to the visual history of the Holocaust, on the one hand, and to the history of trials for war crimes and/or against political opponents in Eastern Europe, on the other, this introduction to the thematic issue of Cahiers du Monde russe proposes recasting the terms of the debate : by expanding the scope of the inquiry to relations between visual, audio and written sources, it revises our understanding…
Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust
Provincial
This essay sketches out how “the provinces” became a central (if semi-imagined) geography in nineteenth-century culture, usually opposed to—though ultimately inextricable from—the development of capitalist and colonial modernity. Surveying recent criticism on the Victorian provincial novel, especially its imbrication with broader scales and networks, I suggest that recent scholarship in critical cartography and feminist theory offers a way to rec…
Cartographies of Region and Empire
Augustine Fouillée's (alias G. Bruno's) Le tour de la France par deux enfants, a children's geography textbook initially published in 1877, has long been considered a nation-building tool in the Third Republic. This essay draws on critical approaches to cartography in order to show how the contradictory modes of mapping throughout the Tour can clarify its generic complexity. Such forms of spatial knowledge would take on new resonances through the…
The translator's task
Recent debates in translation theory have moved beyond hegemonic – and gendered – conceptions of ‘fidelity’ and ‘betrayal’ to consider translation’s transformative, rather than derivative, effects. This essay builds on this body of scholarship to propose translation as a capacious, self-reflexive idiom for articulating literary influence in a multilingual frame. Beginning with the understudied influence of Jorge Luis Borges on Harold Bloom, I the…
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