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As recent years have revealed, the concept of "translation" has grown increasingly important in a globalizing world and a multi-medial society. Seeing translation as the negotiation of differences across identity constructions not only contributes to the understanding of contemporary cultural processes, but also makes it possible to find orientation and critical discerning in the constantly changing social, political and media spaces.
This collection of essays discusses the "translational turn", proposing new theoretical approaches and providing new insights into the relation between narration and the construction of identity, between translation processes and the media.

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"Der Band bietet eine kohärente Darstellung des neuen Zugangs und seines Nutzens, sowohl in der Frage wie man Quellen durch das Prisma der Translatio/n lesen kann, wie auch wie der Komplex ´Kultur als Übersetzung´ die in den historischen Wissenschaften eingefahrenen Denkgewohnheiten aufbrechen kann." Jan Surmann, H-Soz-u-Kult, 11.12.2013 Reviewed in: GMK-Newsletter, 1 (2013)

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Federico Italiano (PD Dr. phil.) is senior researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Munich (LMU). His main research fields include the relationship between Literature and Cartography, Translation Theory, and Contemporary Poetry. Professor Michael Rössner (PhD) teaches Romance Literature at the University of Munich (LMU), Germany. He is director of the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History (IKT) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research fields are literature of the Renaissance and Baroque, literature of the Avantgarde and the early 20th century, post-colonial studies and translation studies.

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