Paul de Man as Translator and 'Intercultural Mediator' in Occupied Belgium (1940-1944)

(2018) Journal of Dutch Literature (Online) — Vol. 9, n° 2, p. 82-111 (2018)

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The contribution of future Belgo-American university professor Paul de Man (1919-1983) to the collaborationist press in occupied Belgium has not been studied from the perspective of cultural transfer research. This essay offers a comprehensive analytical approach to de Man’s work as an ‘intercultural mediator’ during World War II, considering his numerous articles on foreign literatures published in Le Soir and other French- and Dutch-language Belgian newspapers under German occupation as well as his translations from German and Dutch/Flemish into French. The study will necessarily take the systemic context of intellectual collaboration into consideration, especially as far as the networks of editorial life and of transnational Franco-German cultural relationships during the Nazi regime are concerned.
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Roland, H. (2018). Paul de Man as Translator and ‘Intercultural Mediator’ in Occupied Belgium (1940-1944). Journal of Dutch Literature (Online), 9(2), 82-111. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/60969 (Original work published 2018)