Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature - Zrinka Stahuljak

 

fixer

noun

fix·​er ˈfik-sər 

: one that fixes: such as

a

: a person who intervenes to enable someone to circumvent the law or obtain a political favor

b

: a person who adjusts matters or disputes by negotiation

c

: SODIUM THIOSULFATE

also : a solution of sodium thiosulfate

Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature - Zrinka Stahuljak

A new history of early global literature that treats translators as active agents mediating cultures.

In this book, Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both medieval and translation studies to rethink how ideas and texts circulated in the medieval world. Whereas many view translators as mere conduits of authorial intention, Stahuljak proposes a new perspective rooted in a term from journalism: the fixer. With this language, Stahuljak captures the diverse, active roles medieval translators and interpreters played as mediators of entire cultures—insider informants, local guides, knowledge brokers, art distributors, and political players. Fixers offers nothing less than a new history of literature, art, translation, and social exchange from the perspective not of the author or state but of the fixer.

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★Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature

★Zrinka Stahuljak

★202401（University of Chicago Press）

https://press. uchicago. edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo208343235

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