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Article published In: Beyond transfiction: Translators and (their) authors
Edited by Nitsa Ben-Ari, Patricia Godbout, Klaus Kaindl and Shaul Levin
[Translation and Interpreting Studies 11:3] 2016
► pp. 361–381

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Overlap of agent roles in early twentieth-century Belgium

“A lucrative way of spending time”

Published online: 18 November 2016
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.11.3.03gon
This article aims to provide an overview of the intricate overlap of agent roles that characterized the production process of a popular bilingual work — Le chanteur de rues bruxellois/The Brusselsche straatzanger [The Brussels Street Singer] — which circulated in the Belgian capital between 1897 and 1899. By reassembling the micro-networks around the production process of The Brussels Street Singer, this study shows how the interaction and interference of different actors and agent roles led to the creation of a fundamentally hybrid work, one that allows for a better understanding of the Belgian literary configuration at the turn of the twentieth century.
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