Désirée Schyns

List of John Benjamins publications in which Désirée Schyns is involved.

Article

Schyns, Désirée 2016 How Algeria’s multilingual condition and colonial history is obscured: Marketing three postcolonial Francophone Algerian writers in Dutch translation Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology, van Doorslaer, Luc, Peter Flynn and Joep Leerssen (eds.), pp. 181–200 | Article

This chapter focuses on filtering and adaptation in translation into Dutch by taking a closer look at publishers’ paratexts surrounding three translated postcolonial Francophone authors from Algeria. A postcolonial framework will be used to ask whether the “otherness” is blurred in the paratexts… read more