Translation at the interplay of politics and literary transfer

Abstract

This study examines the influence of state control mechanisms over publishing and translating children’s and young adult literature from 1945 to 1952. During this period, two geopolitical disruptive events occurred in former Yugoslavia: the establishment of the Communist regime following the end of the Second World War in 1945 and the Tito–Stalin split in 1948. Two sets of extra‑textual data are analysed to map the landscape of translations of children’s literature in Croatia in the relevant period and probe into the interplay of the dominant ideology, the particular geopolitical context, and literary transfers through translation in the field of children’s literature. One set comprises bibliographic data, and the other the reports and directives of the Commission for Agitation and Propaganda (Agitprop) from Hrvatski državni arhiv (the Croatian State Archives) in Zagreb.