Text Matters: a journal of literature, theory and culture nr 15/2025: Recent submissions
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Translational Dynamics in Urban Space: Exploring Battala’s Multilingual Cultural Encounter
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-27)“Battala” is a Bengali metonym for commercial print culture which gained popularity during the Bengal Renaissance. This print culture became a translational palimpsest, disseminating literary genres and leading to the ... -
Urban Un/Belonging: Translating Pre-Partition Spaces in Old Rawalpindi, Pakistan
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-27)In this article, I propose a transgressive re/inscription of the city spaces of Old Rawalpindi through the lens of Sherry Simon’s integrated translational city theory. In the wake of the 1947 partition of the Indian ... -
Community Centres as Sites of Translation: Placemaking in Edinburgh
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)This article presents a research project comprising a series of community initiatives in Edinburgh, a city which displays a disproportionately English-heavy linguistic profile, despite the cosmopolitan influences of both ... -
Majorca as a Translational Space: Creating and Questioning Identity through Translation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-10-24)Majorca offers a rare combination of opportunities to develop a study of translation and space. Not only is it a site of rich historical cultural contact, but it is also a present location of contact and tension: between ... -
Exploring Yaoundé as a Linguistically Divided Capital City of an English and French Bilingual African Nation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-27)This article examines the place of translation in the public space in Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon, an African nation with a threefold (German, English, and French) colonial heritage. The collected quantitative ... -
Always in Motion: Cities, Languages, Histories
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-27)