Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables, Figures and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreciations
- INTRODUCTION: The Europeanization of Bulgarian Society: A Long-Lasting Political Project
- CHAPTER ONE Institution-Building, Political Culture and Identity in Bulgaria: The Challenge of ‘Europeanization’
- CHAPTER TWO Appropriations of Bulgarian Literature in the West: From Pencho Slaveikov to Iordan Iovkov
- CHAPTER THREE Communism and Cold War in Bulgaria: The Absence of Europe?
- CHAPTER FOUR Bulgarian Turks During the Transition Period
- CHAPTER FIVE Women's Identity and Social Policy in Bulgaria Before and After 1989
- CHAPTER SIX Legal Status and Migrant Economic Performance: The Case of Bulgarians in Spain and Greece
- CHAPTER SEVEN Bulgaria's Path to EU Membership – and Beyond
- CHAPTER EIGHT Accession into the Euro-Atlantic Institutions: Effects on Bulgaria's Balkan Policy(-ies)
- CHAPTER NINE Mirroring Gazes: Europe, Nationalism and Change in the Field of Bulgarian Art and Culture
- CHAPTER TEN The Emergence of Regional Policy in Bulgaria and the Role of the EU
- EPILOGUE
- Appendix I Tables, Figures and Maps
- Notes
- List of Contributors
CHAPTER TWO - Appropriations of Bulgarian Literature in the West: From Pencho Slaveikov to Iordan Iovkov
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables, Figures and Maps
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreciations
- INTRODUCTION: The Europeanization of Bulgarian Society: A Long-Lasting Political Project
- CHAPTER ONE Institution-Building, Political Culture and Identity in Bulgaria: The Challenge of ‘Europeanization’
- CHAPTER TWO Appropriations of Bulgarian Literature in the West: From Pencho Slaveikov to Iordan Iovkov
- CHAPTER THREE Communism and Cold War in Bulgaria: The Absence of Europe?
- CHAPTER FOUR Bulgarian Turks During the Transition Period
- CHAPTER FIVE Women's Identity and Social Policy in Bulgaria Before and After 1989
- CHAPTER SIX Legal Status and Migrant Economic Performance: The Case of Bulgarians in Spain and Greece
- CHAPTER SEVEN Bulgaria's Path to EU Membership – and Beyond
- CHAPTER EIGHT Accession into the Euro-Atlantic Institutions: Effects on Bulgaria's Balkan Policy(-ies)
- CHAPTER NINE Mirroring Gazes: Europe, Nationalism and Change in the Field of Bulgarian Art and Culture
- CHAPTER TEN The Emergence of Regional Policy in Bulgaria and the Role of the EU
- EPILOGUE
- Appendix I Tables, Figures and Maps
- Notes
- List of Contributors
Summary
Bulgarian literature has not been a great attention arrester in the West, least of all in the English-speaking world. In this paper I wish to offer two short case studies of the appropriation of Bulgarian writers in England and Germany, embedded in a broader survey of the relevant contexts and trends. Chronologically, my focus is on the first half of the twentieth century, a time when Bulgaria's contacts with the West did not face the impediments that were so typical of the time after 1944. The first part of this paper centres on Pencho Slaveĭkov; the second, and longer part, concentrates on Iordan Iovkov. Particularly in Iovkov's case, I will be concerned to examine the ideological parameters of this appropriation, revealing a picture of enhanced German interest in Iovkov from a perspective and in a political direction he could not have predicted. Finally, I draw some conclusions that pertain to the topic of this book.
A look at the bibliography of the translations of Bulgarian literature abroad compiled by Veselin Traĭkov – still the most valuable research tool, but published, unfortunately, in a print run of onl y 710 copies – yields a common pattern of appropriation in the early stages. The first translations would invariably be those of folklore material. This is true of translations into Slavonic languages (the earliest one being a 1823 translation of a Bulgarian folksong into Czech), as well as translations into English, French and German.
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- Bulgaria and EuropeShifting Identities, pp. 33 - 42Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2010