From a double margin: Anglophone translation of women's writing from Croatia and Serbia

This article examines Anglophone translations of women's writing from Eastern Europe with particular focus on writers from Croatia and Serbia. After outlining the presences and absences of these women writers in Anglophone translations, it raises some questions about the significance of gender in literary canon formation and the emergence of literary works into a global context through translation.

The 'untranslatable' signifier in the translation of the historical novel 'The Brigde on the Drina' by Ivo Andrić

This article compares two texts, the original one in Serbian by Ivo Andrić (one of the major voices of Serbian literature) and the version of the Italian translation by Bruno Meriggi, a translator who will be remembered for having left a valuable contribution to philological research in the context of overall historiography. The article analyzes the "untranslated" elements and signs, which appear most significant for the work of an interpreter, through a comparison of signs, meanings, similarities and dissimilarities, interpretation and intentionality in the translation of the historical novel the Brigde on the Drina by Ivo Andrić. The analysis which will in any case be connected with the guiding ideas of the concept of untranslatability, (such as obstacles in translation, and partial and absolute losses in translation), will be also developed through a semiotic gaze in order to understand the true importance of words in interpretation and the study of non-verbal messages.

Milica Mićić Dimovska and the challenges of subtlety

The author considers the importance of translation in conveying the ideas and artistic production of less well-known authors, in this case Serbian author Milica Mićić Dimovska (1947-2013). Concentrating on two of her novels, Poslednji zanosi MSS (1996) and Mrena (2002), the article discusses potential political interpretations of Mićić Dimovska's writing, with some attention to its critical reception in Serbia, and speculates on how each of the novels might translate into English.

A world view, subject and narration or: In the West, Nothing New

In the age of terrorism and virulence, an absence of a true community remains an essential experience of an undeniable subject who, finally justified by its (self) isolation, tends to rediscover the concreteness of existence and vitality of the world of life. This experience will lead us to a possible reading of the narrative structure of identity as a horizon for an understanding of the history of metamorphoses of the subject. This interpretation of the function of narration illuminates a relation between the subject and its story which redefines our contemporary, pragmatically reduced, perception of practice.